It's not about the editor: it's about the combination of other tools. Simple text editors invite you to use specific tools for specific tasks that an IDE aggreg

It's not about the editor: it's about the combination of other tools. Simple text editors invite you to use specific tools for specific tasks that an IDE aggregates and configures for you. An IDE is usually good enough, but for some environments, having total control of your tooling can give you big productivity boosts. And not every software depends upon lines and lines of code. Sometimes, you will write useful software that's only a couple hundred lines, but required you hundreds of hours thinking about the problem :)