> Would I be more productive with fancy-pansy code completion? Probably a little bit. But having a simple, agnostic, portable and stable development environment

> Would I be more productive with fancy-pansy code completion? Probably a little bit. But having a simple, agnostic, portable and stable development environment is well worth the trade-off IMO. I'd say historically this was less of a concern, but 10-100kloc codebases are becoming pretty common. More powerful uCs with more flash/ram, heterogeneous cores, etc are allowing very complex embedded projects to exist. I'd say fancy IDE features start to help in these cases.