IDE !== tooling Your sentiment about the right tools for the job is spot on, and one should strive to choose tools that make you more productive but IDEs are o

IDE !== tooling Your sentiment about the right tools for the job is spot on, and one should strive to choose tools that make you more productive but IDEs are one tool of many. There's a host of other things to consider, like what is the testing environment like, library management, repository layout, etc. When you're working across a wide variety of languages, setups, environments, etc. choosing an IDE like Eclipse or Atom might not always be the right tool for the job. This also completely neglects the fact that vi/vim and Emacs, while mostly considered "text editors", can be enhanced to essentially be IDEs in their own right. I think the article's arguments are weak, but so is this counter-argument, sorry.