You’re absolutely right.

Oh great point. I’d add skiing to that category.

I’ll have to give it a try

There’s a typo: gas should be has

That's an interesting point about depending too heavily on a debugger. I haven't run into anyone too dependent on it, but I could see that happening.

To me, debuggers offer a tighter dev loop when there's something you're stuck on. They also let you 'grok' a call stack in an unfamiliar codebase. "Did this function get called?" "What's in this variable?" etc.

I'm a heavy intellij user, but the git log UI always confuses me. When I open 'git log' via the action menu IntelliJ doesn't focus my current branch. I am not sure if there's some other menu I'm supposed to use to achieve that.

I do use the commit local changes, pull changes, merge branches functionality a good bit. My only feedback there is that I haven't found a way to quickly commit changes without running git hooks. Each time it requires me to open up the gear icon and deselect 'git hooks'. This is slower than using the command line where I can write git commit --no-verify and repeat the same command again and again. I know it's a niche need, but it's necessary for testing a rather archaic system we maintain.

For my own projects I’m trying to build things I actually want. Tools for myself. But now the hard part becomes identifying a tool you wish you had, and scoping it down enough so that it’s appropriately sized for a new language. Tricky to approach the task from two ends.

If you aren’t familiar with dependency injection, that could prove a hurdle. Same for webflux/reactor. I would avoid using webflux until you feel more familiar with non-reactive spring. Otherwise it will feel overwhelming.

I feel this way about Hell Let Loose sometimes

Does that mean there is a free tier?