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You aren't necessarily limited to editing single files without project files. Lots of projects are folder-based with tasks or commands to be run on that folder

You aren't necessarily limited to editing single files without project files. Lots of projects are folder-based with tasks or commands to be run on that folder structure. See: Rails apps, Hugo websites, anything written in Go.

vram22 10y ago
Right. Directory-based projects were there from the early days of Unix and C, even before make and makefiles organized things a bit.