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"Ah, you think IDEs are your ally. But you merely adopted the lDE. I was born in Notepad, molded by it. I didn't see syntax highlighting until I was already a man. By then, it was nothing to me but blinding!"
Someone asked me what IDE I use for python and I’m so dumb I didn’t even know what they meant. I just said whatever the fedora gnome text editor app is… who needs IDEs!
Real OG's let their brains do the highlighting, like God intended