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Re:Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave by hueving on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @11:30PM (#13604672)
If you need that much tooling for a python project, you are overengineering or writing really poor code.

I've never found a case where someone is using tons of 'better tooling' for a well engineered project. 'better tools' are crutches to support a 500,000 line spaghetti code base.

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Re:Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave by ggame on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @11:56PM (#13604778)
I personally use Vim and Tmux for my IDE. But I build tools for people who aren't me and they need tools specialized for their job.

Even general purpose devs can benefit from better compilers and code completion.

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Re:Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave by chii on Thursday February 09, 2017 @06:13AM (#13606108)
The reality is that there are lots of spaghetti code bases, and better tooling is a godsend for those.

There is no situation where better tooling isn't better!

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Re:Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave by wolfgke on Thursday February 09, 2017 @07:03AM (#13606314)
> There is no situation where better tooling isn't better!

This is trivially a tautology. The non-trivial part is that what is better or worse depends a lot on the circumstances.

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