(Sorry late to the game) A friend suggested this to me a while back so I tried a couple IDEs, and it didn't really do it for me. Mostly I think this for three

(Sorry late to the game) A friend suggested this to me a while back so I tried a couple IDEs, and it didn't really do it for me. Mostly I think this for three reasons: 1. IDEs don't offer features I need. I don't often need to do a big rename (and if I do, sed and grep have me covered) or generate getters/setters, or what have you. 2. Cool stuff happens outside IDEs. There are tools that generate docs for APIs or even APIs themselves. There are tools that generate clients for APIs. There are tools to build apps using formal techniques (think Jason Donenfeld's work on WireGuard here). IDEs are behind here. 3. For "reasons", I had to implement a circumspect version of DBT in a few days, roughly 1300 LOC. Doing this with Vim was hard enough, but doing this with an IDE would've been impossible because while they help with some of the drudgery of the structure, they can't implement a structure itself, and they can't help me wrangle the raw code. > Does code just flow from their brains into their fingers? I don't get it. It sounds ridiculous, but yeah, more or less. I learn and assess by doing, so mostly I jam things out at 140 wpm, see if it's good, if not do it again. And over a career of doing this I have to do things over less and less, and when I do I get both an implementation and a pretty good empirical defense of it at the end.