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Why? Is fewer things always better? How far should it be consolidated? Taking it to an extreme, would having a tool named Everything that does anything you could imagine in relation to web dev be better?


>Why? Is fewer things always better?

Doesn't have to be always, it often is however. Imagine how better this would be with fewer things: https://xkcd.com/1987/

>Taking it to an extreme, would having a tool named Everything that does anything you could imagine in relation to web dev be better?

Taking it to an extreme, why not?

If it was just a tool that did everything for a language (compile, dependencies, formatting, linting, debug, profile), I'd be totally OK. I'd also be ok with a handful of different tools, all by the same team/project, with the same shared vision and interoperability in mind to begin with.

Go got quite close with that.




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