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He could if he wanted to, but he doesn't want to have a maintainable library.

To clarify, you feel that using Eclipse is more work than breaking a file into multiple shards and setting up a build process to recombine them?

(I'm not trying to be snarky and I apologize if the above comes off that way.)

Well yeah, if you have to use one specific editor because the file is larger than most can handle that should be a signal that the file is the problem.

I for one think that developing a project in multiple files that can all be understood on their own is the only sane way to develop at all, regardless of editor choice.

Contemporary javascript development without a build step?

Even if it isnt a part of the normal build, a separate one that does that would help immensely. AMD makes this ridiculously easy, and grunt etc will help him even further.