> The authors claim that "Modern IDEs are magic". For me, the word "magic" in the context of program development is ambivalent at best. Often, it refers to stu

> The authors claim that "Modern IDEs are magic". For me, the word "magic" in the context of program development is ambivalent at best. Often, it refers to stuff that some software tries to automate wildly, with the result that in easy cases it works nicely, without you having a description of what really happens, and in more complex cases it fails and turns into a mess, without you having any actual clue what happens. I think "magic" works actually only if you do have an interface which takes responsibility of actually everything, like an SSD firmware driver doing write layout for wear leveling. And no, getting 2,000 lines of automated boilerplate for some mundane programming task isn't "magic".....