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> Now developers EXPECT languages to come with a FREE suit of command line tools for linting, static analysis, formatting, package management and what not.

The key selling point of Intellij IDEA is they come with semantic refactoring tools, for something like "move this method into its parent class" or "extract the selected methods to a new interface", which is still rarely seen in the wild, and didn't get mentioned at all in your list, but it saves real time.

parent rfoo 6 years ago

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