I've always been confused when people talk about tooling for their programming languages. It made me fell like, maybe, I was doing it wrong by using a console-

I've always been confused when people talk about tooling for their programming languages. It made me fell like, maybe, I was doing it wrong by using a console-based text editor along with whatever compiler / interpreter is appropriate. This article finally made it clear to me that "tooling" means "a Rube Goldberg device I cooked up instead of learning how my programming language works." LaTeX is a lot easier if you understand what it's doing for you.