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> Don't blame the users, blame the tooling, editor and language developers that never cared for delivering a good debugging experience.

Do blame the users. If they would've said "nah, I'm not using your programming language, it doesn't have a decent IDE and debugger", life would be much better.

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I have a feeling no programming language would ever be used anywhere if we were just as strict with other aspects besides "having decent IDE and debugger"

Name one thing an IDE can do that I can't do with my (Turing complete) editor and shell.

An IDE can let another programmer learn the project without you being there to explain the details of your bespoke tooling.

My bespoke tooling does not require anyone else to use it to navigate or learn any project unlike some IDEs which is the biggest problem with them.

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