The value of refactoring IDEs is that they give you a cheap way to reorganize your designs as the code evolves. I see no data based evidence of your coding bei

The value of refactoring IDEs is that they give you a cheap way to reorganize your designs as the code evolves. I see no data based evidence of your coding being faster than IDE coding. In my experience of comparing me with myself, I am an order of magnitude faster in accommodating reviewer comments and changing the code design when using a good refactoring IDE, as opposed to menially updating 10s of code reference points manually. I'm also significantly faster in identifying problems in unknown code using an IDE, especially if the IDE has tracing support. Tracing being exactly what printf debugging gives you, except that it's faster to setup and easier to cleanup when the debug fest is done.