I agree with you in general, but here I am discussing introductory CS programs. It's very hard for an intro CS student to build and run a Java program without a

I agree with you in general, but here I am discussing introductory CS programs. It's very hard for an intro CS student to build and run a Java program without an IDE, even with help from the professor. It's completely trivial for that same student to write and run most of the Python programs they'll be doing in their intro class after having installed _just Python_.