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Comment by tubthumper8

1 year ago

Adding on, I find that the people who manually navigate everywhere rather than using the IDE navigation features also don't use IDE refactoring features.

When people say "just organize your code well", this isn't something that happens perfectly on the first time, it's something that evolves as the codebase grows. IDE features reduce the barrier to reorganizing as we better understand the problem domain or as the solution grows.

My experience is that those who don't take advantage of their tools produce worse output, even if they believe they are producing better output, the organization they've created only works in their mind and not for their teammates or other people who later inherit the project.