Empirical question about code: Does the use of autocomplete change one’s code? In general, do developers who use autocomplete tend to use longer variable names, for instance, or does it not really change things in terms of the code written?
Empirical question about code: Does the use of autocomplete change one’s code? In general,
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One thing autocomplete can do to change your code is to make you aware of functionality inside a given library that you might not have noticed unless you scoured the libraries docs – this could allow for better (more concise) usage of the libraries.