I think that has basis too though. IDEs are huge and hugely complicated. Until fairly recently, they were quite often nearly unusable. Want to edit a text fi

I think that has basis too though. IDEs are huge and hugely complicated. Until fairly recently, they were quite often nearly unusable. Want to edit a text file? You'd first have to start your IDE loading and go to lunch, then maybe if you were lucky by the time you got back it'd be done loading and indexing and you could actually edit your file. Well not so fast, first you'd have to answer 100 questions to configure the IDE for a 'project'. Only then could you edit your file. Slowly. One. Single. Character. At. A. Time. Waiting for the IDE to become responsive again after each character. Nowadays, however, the hardware has caught up and some IDEs are actually usable most of the time. And they're indispensable on the big convoluted projects we now deal with, that have tons of dependencies and convoluted ravioli code from OOP hierarchies. I do kinda miss working on projects that were simple and clean enough to not need an IDE. But it would be terrible to go back to not using one with the code we wrangle these days.