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The author of rust-analyzer discussing how language features help or hinder fast IDEs. If you allow `from m import *` you can't analyse files in isolation, and it's even harder in Rust.

Futhark's design is deliberately trying to stay simple to keep long term design sustainable. The author also has an interesting discussion of relative versus absolute paths in import syntax, and how relative paths can make local analysis easier.

I'm a big fan of history-based fuzzy directory switchers like autojump. I used fasd until recently, but I've started playing with zoxide and it's been good so far. This is such an established niche that zoxide can import history from other tools!