The author seems to have a particular IDE/text editor and programming environment in mind. But they don’t ever reveal what those are and makes an argument much

The author seems to have a particular IDE/text editor and programming environment in mind. But they don’t ever reveal what those are and makes an argument much more general than that. Ie: This one IDE is worse than this one text editor for this one programming environment. So every IDE is worse than every text editor for everyone. I am sorry, but there is zero truth in a sweeping generalization like that. What is an IDE anyway these days? VSCode with plugins is more IDE than some IDEs. The lines are all blurry. Is syntax highlighting considered to be an IDE? Clearly it’s doing more than text editing. It’s understanding the language. Believe it or not, those days of pure text editors are long gone. Almost every modern iteration of a text editor does a lot of what would have been squarely in the realm of IDEs some years ago. These are all just tools. Some are better than others in specific situations. Without the specifics, this kind of argument is noise.