Is there really an advantage to using Ed instead of vim in any situation whatsoever? (Assuming you're totally comfortable with vim)

> React feels natural because it never asks you to stop writing JavaScript

I want to increment some counter on the webpage. Which approach feels natural?

  increment = () => {
    this.setState((prevState) => ({ count: prevState.count + 1 }));
  };

  const increment = () => setCount((count) => count + 1);

  function increment() {
    count += 1;
  }

No one wakes up saying "please let me mutate simple state with function calls".

> Maybe a PAYG phone which stays at home on my network for particular needs like banking.

If you're only doing banking at home, why would you do it on such a tiny little device?

> But now an extremist group, the Alternative for Germany or AfD, may become that nation’s biggest political party,

It is is supported by most, it is, by definition, not extremist. The word has a meaning, and it was not "something I happen to dislike"

And to debunk the canard about replaceable batteries preventing phones from being waterproof: the Samsung S5 was waterproof and had a replaceable battery, as did decades of police and marine walkie talkies and GPS, and a century of outdoor flashlights. I would accept that it costs a little bit of space inside the phone, interfering with Steve Jobs' dream of a paper thin phone the size of a cigarette lighter. But today, Jobs is gone and people like big phones, so it is fine. I would even be happy with a thick phone powered by a couple of 18650's instead of a pouch cell.

Note that per the article, it is ok for replacing the battery to require simple tools (e.g. a small screwdriver). So that makes weather sealing even easier, since you can put a gasket around the battery door and tighten the door down with a screw. That is how my old AA-powered Garmin GPS works, more or less, though you don't need tools to undo the screw.

It is already an antipattern, it hurt my eye as it was too bright.

Once again webdevs creating another UX nightmare.

See it through. I know sometimes at university it can feel like your having your wings clipped, or that your not getting the 'real' experience.

But it won't last forever, and what it does well - conveying often unintuitive OOP concepts - it does do well.

Your course conveners job its to teach the fundamentals, tooling is for you to shake out as you gain experience and scale up, and from their perspective - imagine trying to wrangle random IntelliJ/Eclipse issues with a cohort of 120+ students, for many whom this might be their first introduction to programming!

Scaling things back probably genuinely allows them to provide a better learning on ramp.

We were forced to use this ide back in the days when I went to school. I never encountered something more worse to use then this "IDE". Not to mention we were told to use notepad in the beginning... Can't make this sh* up.

From my perspective its very confusing for beginners to switch to a proper IDE after using this. And I will not mind the argument that "proper" IDE are overwhelming. If you are new to programming most likely everything, including BlueJ, is overwhelming. And with a good teacher and a good introduction I don't think its too much for beginners to use something like IntelliJ.

Just use the "correct" tools right away.

//edit: The IDE might improved a lot since the last time I used it. Didn't wanted to talk bad on BlueJ itself.