> Biggest problem with IDEs is they are a big in-your-face hurricane of features that is often too much. This is another aspect. They suck up attention, which

> Biggest problem with IDEs is they are a big in-your-face hurricane of features that is often too much. This is another aspect. They suck up attention, which is a scarce resource. It is just like you start a web browser to look up some documentation, and it shows a dozen of interesting sites you might want to read because the browser developers got some money from these sites, or whatever. Good software typically has a sparse feeling (depending on which are its intended users), in the sense that it does not distract. But this is just a symptom of a bigger issue that they are not really friendly to the developer.