Resharper Dependency.

Question

As i code with Resharper, I sometimes wonder if i will always need it. When i turn this devilish tool off, i find as if someone "took away my powers".

Should i be worried?

Answer 1

Seriously, no. I myself am dependent on the "powers" of Resharper and get annoyed when I realize that it doesn't run on a certain machine, but I can make do with C#'s default refactoring tools.

What makes Resharper extremely addictive is the way it makes it easy to follow OOP tenets and implement SOLID principles and such.

So you should not be worried simply because, in my opinion: Most developers who find Resharper addictive and indispensible are people who are inclined to and make a conscious effort to write clean, maintainable code.

And I think that's a good thing.

Answer 2

Maybe a bit ;)

to be honest - I don't think you should be worried - as long as you still know what was done by Resharper. If you don't know the exact-syntax of it - it's no big deal - since you can look that up. But it's natural for us (well - for me) to quickly adapt to tools that make our lives much easier (have you tried to code without syntax-highlighting recently...). As long as we still know what's going on - I don't think that we should worry but when things are done that we don't fully understand ... alarm-bells should ring!