Writing code on paper is healthy, actually

Ever felt like writing coding assignments by hand is useless? Well, you would be wrong. Typing code on a keyboard is really the “meta” in 2025, so why do what everyone else is doing? Like Robert Frost says, the road not taken could change your life. Go against the grain, and write code by hand on a piece of paper. The intelligent people would agree with me when I say “History repeats itself”, because since people used to write code out on paper before punching it into cards, it must be the right thing.

Hear me out, this is the future of modern software development. Imagine using sophisticated IDEs with debuggers and profiling tools where you have to login using your email, or text editors with LSPs and autocomplete, when you could harden yourself by writing code on a piece of paper, like the good old days. 

Forget Visual Studio, or the other IDE with a similar name that isn’t an IDE really, but pretends to be by offering extensions and plugins where you sit all day configuring it because Microsoft decided it would be fun to keep on changing how it is configured, yes, the peak coding experience is the one where you write code using different colors of pens, use dotted lines to highlight indentation so it’s more readable.

According to a lot of studies I have conducted, typing and using the mouse can give you Carpal Tunnel, or even some repetitive strain injury. Worse still, you could go blind staring at OLED screens all day. Who needs all this overstimulation?

Well, it’s not like you’re getting a seven figure job in this landscape by getting an ergonomic desk setup, a soundbar, 4 extra monitors, and a mechanical keyboard when all you use it for is ChatGPT, so might as well try a new method. This could really change your life. Thank me later.