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You seem to be being downvoted but you are correct. I find it hilarious how so many programmers hate using very useful and productive tools. It would be like a engineer refusing to use 3D CAD software.



I'm with both of you from my personal experience, and have definitely seen some programmers lose tons of time fumbling to google a function, scrolling through files to find a definition etc. As a programmer I find myself offended when I see somebody slowing down when the tool could speed them up. Plus if there's machine refactoring (rename, extract) it starts getting ridiculous when folks don't use it.

However, I've also worked with some bona-fide legends who really just use vim and dust everyone around them. Granted I wonder if they could go _even faster_ with automation but I can't fault it.

For me these days I'm leveraging new technologies and languages so often I really need the IDE features to get going. Doing rust without rustanalyzer or ts without vscode if you're noob (but not a noob coder) is a recipe for wasting a LOT of time imo -- I always learn suprising things from the (good) suggestions [and start dutifully disabling the bad ones].




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