Raw text editor (with syntax highlighting) is definitely not the thing of the past. For me, it's my main operation mode, even though I write code for living for

Raw text editor (with syntax highlighting) is definitely not the thing of the past. For me, it's my main operation mode, even though I write code for living for a few years already. For you at this point, sticking to text editor and command line tools may be the better option. You are exposed to how compilers are called and how things are being built, so you know it's nothing magic. I've seen people who started with IDEs for Java and never learned that there are operations beside F5 [run] and F9 [compile], e.g. that Java program can be packed up to a JAR and run from there, or that some source files can be generated before compilation.