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by user3939382 1015 days ago
The automatic things it really helps with IMHO is: debugging, code navigation, and inspections. You can always do code nav with string searches and debugging with print statements, it’s just a lot slower. The inspections keep your code style consistent but ultimately without them, if they caused a real bug you’d find it from your tests.
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...all of that is easily accessible in open source text editors. And in my experience it's also much more reliable, _and_ it's one less subscription.
No it’s not. I use a tool called EA Inspections Extended extensively. There are a couple tools sorta-kinda like it in theory but really no comparison. This keeps your code very neat and clean and automates the cleanup. You’d spend a massive amount of time doing what it does manually.