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I've never been too fond of IDEs and all the complexity they bring/encourage. When they work they can be helpful, but when things go wrong, they tend to go really wrong. Silent automatic updating is another one of those scary things that you don't notice until it's too late.

As Dijkstra says, "simplicity is a prerequisite for reliability."



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