At Microsoft we have all types: IDE diehards and those that are happy staying with vim/emacs. There's also a group that uses a text editor 90% of the time and

At Microsoft we have all types: IDE diehards and those that are happy staying with vim/emacs. There's also a group that uses a text editor 90% of the time and fires up the IDE only for the debugger and perhaps GUI builder. Which of the 3 buckets you fall into seems to be one of those nature/nurture questions. Re IDE's being slow/bloated - Our group does a Python IDE (free/oss plug-in) and the performance is pretty decent. If you have SSD's, VS can feel pretty snappy. Here's a video to give you an idea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CoGsSlrxKk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CoGsSlrxKk . For 1.1 we're working toward becoming more Editor+ like, ie, less Project System overhead - just open a file & go.