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John Carmack: Best programming setup and IDE | Lex Fridman Podcast Clips
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A clip of John Carmack on the Lex Fridman podcast discussing his programming setup, why he favors debuggers and IDEs, and his puzzlement at developers who avoid them.
HN debugger-versus-print-debugging threads point to it as Carmack's authoritative case for using a real debugger.
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