Yes, perhaps I was not clear. I do think an IDE is more efficient. Actually, I believe a modern IDE is barely scratching the surface of what could be possible.

Yes, perhaps I was not clear. I do think an IDE is more efficient. Actually, I believe a modern IDE is barely scratching the surface of what could be possible. I am one of the lunatics who believe in editing directly on the AST, forgoing the filesystem and working on one shared merkle-tree-like database with function signatures as the primary entry point for search.