[scarface_74]

And even assemblers had macros in the late 80s and shortcuts to make assembly easier.

There is no reason to purposefully make your life harder and not use the tools available.

The parent poster doesn’t use IDEs because it hides complexity. There is a such thing as necessarily complex.

About a decade ago I was working at a company that created a SaaS product for railroad car repair billing.

These are the main requirements not including a dozen addendums

https://public.railinc.com/sites/default/files/documents/CRB...

The parent commenter would say that we shouldn’t use an IDE to navigate through the massive code base to make sure records submitted from the railroad yards were in compliance. What alternative would you suggest?

Intellisense for Visual Studio has been out since the mid 90a

[withinboredom]

I remember when it came out. It changed my life. Libraries without docs were suddenly discoverable. I didn’t have to memorize things, I just had to remember the gist of things. It let me focus on the important stuff. Still, today, before picking up a library, I will read over the whole thing so I know what is possible; but I don’t need to memorize it.