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by Jensson 1691 days ago
> What we have here are "leaky abstractions"[1]. If the abstraction an IDE provides is not good enough that students can work with it without knowing about the lower layer, then the abstraction is leaky.

Do you suggest teachers fix Eclipse so it no longer has leaky abstractions rather than just teach students how to work in a modern file system?