>The IDE isn't the root cause though, hiding code complexity is a patch. Write cleaner code To clarify, the context of this article is using tools to understa

>The IDE isn't the root cause though, hiding code complexity is a patch. Write cleaner code To clarify, the context of this article is using tools to understand someone else's code. (The author's setting: ">Suppose you are casually reading the source code of rust-analyzer, and are curious about handling of method bodies. There’s a Body struct in the code base, and you want to understand how it is used.") In that particular perspective, the IDE is the root cause because it can be purposely designed to highlight/emphasize/annotate/correlate/hide ... various aspects of the unfamiliar codebase. If the author then later chooses to refactor the code, that's when your advice of "write cleaner code" would apply.