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But for me, the friction of VS Code is more cognitive than computational. I call it the \"searching with your eyes\" [0] problem. VS Code's heavy reliance on the file explorer tree forces you to constantly visually scan nested directories to navigate. 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I have 40 files open in it right now - most of them .c source files with LSP and Treesitter running and it uses 250MB of RAM. Everything works instantly, Telescope is imo new standard for file navigation (and navigation in general: grep, symbols even neovim shortcuts). Git integration is fantastic as well. 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But for me, the friction of VS Code is more cognitive than computational. I call it the \"searching with your eyes\" [0] problem. VS Code's heavy reliance on the file explorer tree forces you to constantly visually scan nested directories to navigate. When I switched t", "context": "", "use_case": "file navigation in Neovim", "switched_from": "", "story": "You Need to Ditch VS Code"}, {"id": 732693408, "item_id": 45793338, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45793338", "by": "thesz", "date": "2025-11-02", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I remember being able to use telescopes [1] in Haskell long time ago", "excerpt": "\"In general, neither can ensure at compile time that an index only known at runtime is in bounds, even if the bounds themselves are statically known.\" I remember being able to use telescopes [1] in Haskell long time ago, around 2012 or so. [1] https://www.pls-lab.org/en/telescope Haskell was not and is not properly dependently typed.", "context": "", "use_case": "Dependent types in Haskell", "switched_from": "", "story": "Why don't you use dependent types?"}]}