[hueving]

If you need that much tooling for a python project, you are overengineering or writing really poor code.

I've never found a case where someone is using tons of 'better tooling' for a well engineered project. 'better tools' are crutches to support a 500,000 line spaghetti code base.

[ggame]

I personally use Vim and Tmux for my IDE. But I build tools for people who aren't me and they need tools specialized for their job.

Even general purpose devs can benefit from better compilers and code completion.

[chii]

The reality is that there are lots of spaghetti code bases, and better tooling is a godsend for those.

There is no situation where better tooling isn't better!

[wolfgke]

> There is no situation where better tooling isn't better!

This is trivially a tautology. The non-trivial part is that what is better or worse depends a lot on the circumstances.