Indeed - and those investing in higher-level languages such as assembly or C (gasp!) are tricked into believing those things are good for them - when really, th

Indeed - and those investing in higher-level languages such as assembly or C (gasp!) are tricked into believing those things are good for them - when really, they should be investing in learning machine languages, the purest form of programming for general-purpose processing circuits. /s Honestly, programming languages, IDEs, Jupyter notebooks, etc. are all tools to help individuals solve problems using general-purpose processors. If you feel equally productive without some of those tools, that's fine, but there's nothing wrong with using those tools if they help.