I'm happy coding in WordPad, GEdit, etc, and use Sublime today. My view is that if you need an IDE to maintain your code effectively; if your volume of edits i

I'm happy coding in WordPad, GEdit, etc, and use Sublime today. My view is that if you need an IDE to maintain your code effectively; if your volume of edits is such that macros and navigation tricks make a meaningful impact on your pace of development, then your code probably has serious architectural problems¹. You see all impediments to action as debilitating, but I think impediments, carefully curated, can provide useful constraints on my development process. Friction helps me see where my interfaces are getting strained. ¹ I feel bad writing this because I know, if I step back from my own preferences, that your approach to development probably works great too. But your claim was so insulting, I'll leave this as is to match your tenor.