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by sateesh 547 days ago
>> If there is an IDE available that works well out of the box, I'll certainly use whatever automation is available. But often it is broken, incomplete, slow, inaccurate, etc. ...

I think you are unduly harsh here. As a longtime emacs user and who switched to IDE recently (ones that come from JetBrains) my experience hasn't been what you mention. Yes there is a bit of time (not huge) to get adjusted to the shortcuts and efficiently navigate the code, but post that the IDE ecosystem is not as broken as you allude to.
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avalys 547 days ago
If I'm working on a small hobby project by myself, or some open-source stuff, sure! I agree the Jetbrains stuff is great, I've been using them since 2001 with IntelliJ IDEA.

But most of the large industrial codebases I've worked on at FAANG companies break IDEs one way or another - either because of the build process, or the size of the codebase, etc.

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