Not many people can understand a very large code base without taking notes, using an IDE, or similar tooling. > Not a dig at nice IDEs, just code that requires

Not many people can understand a very large code base without taking notes, using an IDE, or similar tooling. > Not a dig at nice IDEs, just code that requires one to navigate and understand A nice IDE helps you reason about code, no matter what the underlying architecture is. That is why there is a market for them.