I don’t use an IDE but I use emacs. Heavily use Helm, heavily use its ag integration to navigate around projects and I yasnippet useful patterns and rely on the

I don’t use an IDE but I use emacs. Heavily use Helm, heavily use its ag integration to navigate around projects and I yasnippet useful patterns and rely on them a lot. Am I using an “IDE” - no. But am I using tooling to make my life way easier than a raw text editor? Absolutely. Will my productivity fall off rapidly without this tooling? Most likely. So I reject the argument made in the article. Just choose your IDE wisely and make the tradeoffs you want to be productive.