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Tools are great, but I'm not a fan of the idea of needing special tooling outside of the source code itself in order to be able to understand it. Maybe it's ju

• frou_dh 6y ago
  In this case it would be a pure value-add, because the fallback is the way everyone can evidently cope with anyway.
  • adrianmsmith 6y ago
    I'm not sure that's entirely true. If a large proportion of people use a more advanced development tool, it sort of becomes indispensable, because people design the software to be edited with the tool, such that it becomes difficult to edit it without the tool. For example if, today, I checked in code like performRequest(request, response, null, null, null) you probably wouldn't consider that good code, as it's not clear what the nulls mean there. Most people today would try to not write code like that. But if everyone was using an editor which displayed the parameter names, then it'd be fine. People would write that code, check it in, and so on. Which would mean that those people without the tool would have to confront such code.