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If you need that much tooling for a python project, you are overengineering or writing really poor code.

I've never found a case where someone is using tons of 'better tooling' for a well engineered project. 'better tools' are crutches to support a 500,000 line spaghetti code base.



I personally use Vim and Tmux for my IDE. But I build tools for people who aren't me and they need tools specialized for their job.

Even general purpose devs can benefit from better compilers and code completion.


The reality is that there are lots of spaghetti code bases, and better tooling is a godsend for those.

There is no situation where better tooling isn't better!


> There is no situation where better tooling isn't better!

This is trivially a tautology. The non-trivial part is that what is better or worse depends a lot on the circumstances.




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