If you think an IDE will somehow corrode your skills, then you might not survive the incoming army of AI agents that will make IDEs look like punch cards. Your

If you think an IDE will somehow corrode your skills, then you might not survive the incoming army of AI agents that will make IDEs look like punch cards. Your skill as a programmer/engineer should not depend on the intricacies of syntax and the setup of a prettier or linter library. Additionally, there is no reason not to use a GUI. Sublime Text was a good example of an IDE that is in between a full blown solution like VSCode and a bare bones terminal text editor. Why would you not want a UI to customize and have shortcuts such that you can just click once instead of typing on your keyboard like you are playing a professional game of StarCraft.