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dolni on Aug 21, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Benefits of Not Using an IDE

Enforcing an IDE across a team for consistency is a real stinky smell.

You don't have CI/CD? You sure as hell aren't going to run an IDE in CircleCI or Jenkins to do your builds.

oneplane on Aug 21, 2021 [–]

This has nothing to do with CI/CD or forcing anything on anyone. It has to do with being similar enough in a team to be able to work together. Being unique or different to a degree that it is hurting your (and by extension your team's) performance is bad.

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