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by shakna 3326 days ago
> Sometimes they do exactly what you need, and 70% of the time they're just totally useless (which is a knock on the programming languages more than the IDEs)

See, that makes a lot of sense on the surface... And I find it playing out across a lot of the modern IDEs like PyCharm...

But I don't think it actually has to be that way.

DrRacket blew most of what I knew out of the water. It could refactor for me, trace functions and calls to definitions through multiple libraries, which included argument arities. I could write code in the REPL and push it back up into the editor, or vice versa.