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Yvan on Nostr: If you were teaching someone new(ish) to coding a bit of Python as part of a larger ...

If you were teaching someone new(ish) to coding a bit of Python as part of a larger codebase they would need to reference/navigate... what editor* would you start them out on? Something that does all the nice auto-completion, the navigation to definition and use points, possibly even built-in documentation**.

* I am a vi*** user, and whilst I did once have a bit of editor-religion, I don't really care any more... and realistically I feel like I don't want to push a non-coder into the viverse... it feels... sadistic?

** Yes, I do have all these featues and more in my nvim setup, but that doesn't change my view on it being sadistic 😆

*** I mean, I can survive in oldskool 'vi', but realistically a vim user for 2+ decades, albeit more recently have switched to nvim (seems to have been a fairly painless transition, but I do miss some of my old config, and not really got my head around neovim config yet.)

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