I use VSCode and it helps but there's three points here: 1. It doesn't remove all friction—it can't magic type definitions out of thin air. 2. The fact that t

I use VSCode and it helps but there's three points here: 1. It doesn't remove all friction—it can't magic type definitions out of thin air. 2. The fact that tooling exists means it's there to remove friction. Ergo, that friction exists. 3. Following 2: this tooling isn't appropriate in all environments. There's situations where opening vim and sketching out an idea is the fastest way.