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by zerebubuth 4223 days ago
> Tools are everything. What makes or breaks a paradigm/language are tools

I completely agree. In my experience, and it's probably the same for many people, I spend a non-trivial amount of time not writing "primary" code. Instead I'm testing, debugging, dealing with build issues and dependencies, packaging, wrangling deployments etc...