I've never found the fancy features in IDEs to be worth it. Compared to vim/emacs, they're: - slow - visually distracting - lightweight in text manipulation -

I've never found the fancy features in IDEs to be worth it. Compared to vim/emacs, they're: - slow - visually distracting - lightweight in text manipulation - built around seldom use features I rarely need a debugger or type information, yet the entire interface bends over backwards to include those features. In fact, I feel that IDEs encourage more complicated code structure because it makes dealing with them reasonable. The only time I use an IDE is when: - the build process is too complicated (mobile, .NET or Java, game engines) - I'm unfamiliar with the platform - everyone else is using it, so I'd have to maintain the CLI build process myself - I need a fancy debugger That being said, I've only fired up an IDE a couple times in the last year or so, so vim has been more than capable at solving my problems.