Every IDE I've used just worked out of the box, be it Visual Studio, Eclipse, or anything using the language server protocol.
Having the ability to have things like method auto-completion, go-to-definition and symbol renaming is a net productivity gain from the minute you start using it and I couldn't imagine this being a controversial take in 2025…
> I don't know what “tarpit” you're talking about.
Really? You don't know software developers that would rather futz around with editor configs and tooling and libraries and etc, etc, all day every day instead of actually shipping the boring code?
Every IDE I've used just worked out of the box, be it Visual Studio, Eclipse, or anything using the language server protocol.
Having the ability to have things like method auto-completion, go-to-definition and symbol renaming is a net productivity gain from the minute you start using it and I couldn't imagine this being a controversial take in 2025…