I don't like bloat.

Whenever I develop, I want the absolute minimum of distraction that it's needed to complete a task.

I've been through many IDE/Editors (in order of discovery): Visual Studio, NetBeans, the JetBrains suite, SublimeText vi and Atom.

I started with C++ and C# and fell in love with VS. When I started working with Ruby, RubyMine looked like the only choice, and for many developers, it still is. For me... it's just too much.

I loved RubyMine but,_ _just like all the previous ones, it takes too much time to open, too much to index the project, too many buttons, too many settings. I just want to write code and see it working.

I went to SublimeText and now its OpenSource incarnation: Atom.

Sometimes, for smaller tasks or even small projects, I do enjoy using vi (beware: too many plugins and you have a bloated vi environment too).

For me (and in this moment), Atom represents the perfect balance of essential features and speed that I need when writing code. I can use the command line for anything not strictly required in the IDE, like Git, starting and managing the Rails server and setting breakpoints.

(Yes, I know. SublimeText is way faster than Atom when handling huge files. But do you really open 3+ MB files in your daily development job? You're doing it wrong.)

Block selection in Webstorm.

I am used from Atom to do block selection via Alt+arrow combination. It's quick and easy.

Webstorm supports block selection, but I have to switch to block selection state (via Command+Shift+8), do the selection, do the changes, then switch back to regular selection (again Command+Shift+8).

Webstorm is great. I like it a lot. But I'm really annoyed by having to switch between selection states, instead of using a modifier.