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The IDE Bloat Cycle, or How Your IDE Ate Your Afternoon

12 July 20265 July 2026 by Pete Blakemore

‎VS Code and PyCharm started as the coder’s friend, then bloated into arms-race complexity. A look at feature creep in code editors and why the best tools get out of the way.

Categories Random Thoughts, Tech & Servers Tags beginners, code editors, developer tools, feature creep, IDE, minimalism, programming, PyCharm, software bloat, user experience, VS Code Leave a comment
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