Yeah, web dev has been fucked for quite some time. Nobody wants to pay for good IDEs anymore, and thus there is only crap out there.
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Sigh...configuring vim/emacs used to a be rite of passage and now AI IDEs are a thing. I'd never pay for an IDE!
Nothing better than being able to compile and run with a one-liner from in the terminal
Nah.. misplaced focus.. It is a trap to keep you poor.
You are not going to change the world if you focus on being able to compile from the terminal with a one liner. That should not matter. If it just so happens to be there, sure. But if I had to config stuff to get something as simple as compilation going, then I am not as productive as I could be.
I learned to love IDEs that are just there, day in and day out, and get out of the way for as long as possible. If I forget the hot keys to do something, I have a button that does it. If the button isn't there, a menu option is there. The amount of work vim and emacs people need to do to install a simple search and replace in all files or simple refactoring things like moving blocks around, extracting functions, renaming variables across files, is absolutely crazy.