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Discussion on: How dependent are you on your development environment configuration?

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Serhii

Definitely, syntax highlighting is a barrier to code readability. We are used to it. We could write programs without highlighting, autocompleting (in this case, we'll allocate more time for searching necessary methods/etc. in the documentation), rich editors, sure, we can do this. But why?:)
Most of the features of contemporary tools intend to decrease code reading/writing time.

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Ben Lovy

Fair point - the "why" is tricky to pinpoint for this scenario. With bash scripts or Ansible, the "lead time" for getting a fresh install up to where you need it to be is minimal anyway.