Today’s IDEs (Integrated Development Environments) provide a lot of features that make development significantly easier. From error checking and debugging to intelligent syntax highlighting and refactoring, there are a significant amount of time saving features available. One of these commonly loved features I have disabled, and found it has made my life easier as well as the code I write better. The feature I am speaking of is autocompletion…

I have always been intrigued by projects such as PHP.JS. To be completely honest, it’s not because I though they were “neat” or “innovative”, but because they have always made me ask myself “Why would someone seriously want to do something like that?!?!?”… Let me try to explain my standpoint.