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Re:Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your ... by otabdeveloper4 on Saturday December 27, 2025 @07:34AM (#46401406)
I don't use IDEs that require more time and effort investment than they save.

You mileage may vary, though. Lots of software engineers love those time and effort tarpits.

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Re:Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your ... by littlestymaar on Sunday December 28, 2025 @11:28AM (#46412206)
I don't know what “tarpit” you're talking about.

Every IDE I've used just worked out of the box, be it Visual Studio, Eclipse, or anything using the language server protocol.

Having the ability to have things like method auto-completion, go-to-definition and symbol renaming is a net productivity gain from the minute you start using it and I couldn't imagine this being a controversial take in 2025…

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Re:Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your ... by otabdeveloper4 on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @04:02AM (#46431116)
> I don't know what “tarpit” you're talking about.

Really? You don't know software developers that would rather futz around with editor configs and tooling and libraries and etc, etc, all day every day instead of actually shipping the boring code?

You must be working in a different industry.

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