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by tossAfterUsing 2252 days ago
I think this is prevalent in computer use generally. I came up on Dos & Win 3.1, and at every level the OS is trying to abstract the functionality from you.

Imagine trying to understand what a "driver" is without having a sense of what computer programming does... no way.

What i'm saying is: it's not just the IDEs... it's a mentality about computing.

And for one thing, it's the "i can do this quicker with an IDE" or "i can do this faster with a computer"

surely a computer can make things happen quickly, but truly understanding your tools takes much much longer than anybody realizes.