> The goal of most IDEs seems to be first help with a debugger / executing code/tests, second help with writing code We must not be using the same IDEs. To me

> The goal of most IDEs seems to be first help with a debugger / executing code/tests, second help with writing code We must not be using the same IDEs. To me “IDE functionality” is almost synonymous with “code navigation”: jump to definition, find references, etc., which are purely “code reading” features.