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Conflating beginner tools and expert tools (user-friendliness) is usually where everything go wrong. For most people, Wordpad was enough, Microsoft Word was for when you need a bit more control. But an expert tool is Adobe InDesign where you have the maximum control. And the UI is quite different.

Same when learning to code, a basic text editor like Gnome's Text Editor or Nano is all you need. But an expert will reach out to Intellij's for his project because his needs are more complex.



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