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Tool shaming?

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Anonymous
·Oct 8, 2018

Has someone ever shamed you for using a particular tool? I am wondering there is a trend in bashing certain brands of tools.

I recently tried to apply for a few entry-level frontend positions. I use Dreamweaver CC 2018 as my primary/only editor to work on HTML/CSS/JS files. I am a visual person, and I rely heavily on DW's ability to click on an element in the Design View to jump to a corresponding HTML in the Code View. I also heavily rely on DW's CSS visual editor panel. To me, it's all about getting things done as quickly as I could, and I feel extremely crippled without Dreamweaver. The easier, the better, and I don't see any point of having to memorize everything and type everything manually. It's 2018. I find it incredibly wasteful to have to type many lines of HTML/CSS codes when I could just use Dreamweaver's GUI controls.

All interviewers gave me this strange look when I told them about how I worked. Some of them even laughed at me and said that I needed to reconsider my approach and learn "the right way," whatever that might be. One of them said I should switch to Sublime Text or Visual Studio Code. I don't like them because they don't have Design View where I could click and jump to a block of code. They both look primitive to me.

What's so wrong with my approach? Why should I type everything manually when I can use Dreamweaver GUI?