• FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Why does an IDE need unfettered access to my whole FS? Access to the project directory, and maybe the runtime directory, have to be enough.

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      2 years ago

      What about compiler toolchains? Shared libraries? Debuggers? There are many things that don’t fit into a simple “select this file/directory to allow access” model. For some apps that’s fine, but for others it isn’t that simple. I’m not saying it isn’t solvable, just that it isn’t currently solved.