Maybe if your code lives in a small bubble with everybody using the same IDE but definitely not for larger projects. For huge projects you want the build/index

Maybe if your code lives in a small bubble with everybody using the same IDE but definitely not for larger projects. For huge projects you want the build/index performance from a fast build server rather than a laptop, buildi environment inside a docker container, IDE in windows and build in linux, free choice of IDE rather than tighlty tied plugins. Though i fully agree that json might not be the best packaging.