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Mark

Dec 13, 2018

JetBrains IDEs like CLion, IDEA, PyCharm. Also for editing individual files, not just large projects.

I don't really know why some programmers use text editors instead of full IDEs. Good IDEs are much more powerful, why cripple yourself?

For very small changes from the terminal, especially when using ssh, I use vim sometimes. But not for any big changes.

Gustavo Benedito Costa

Deaf-born, computer science student and language lover

Dec 13, 2018

Because JetBrains are not free. Only the first world/developed countries people can afford buying licences of these apps. In India, Indonesia, Latin America and Brazil (where I live), we can not afford buying it.

Yes, I know many who use JetBrains and Sublime Text in my country and in these countries, but actually they pirated it.

Yes, we know free IDE apps: Android Studio, Eclipse, CodeBlocks, QT Creator, NetBeans and XCode. But the customisation of some of these apps is too limited. Atom offers Java, PHP and Python IDEs.

Alan Guitard

Software/AI developer

Dec 13, 2018

I don't think that IDE is more powerfull, it is just more powerfull for some specific language. For python, a text editor you can customize for your need, like Emacs or Vim, will be much more powerfull because everything running in background is running because you want to. Every plugin installed in your text editor is there to answer a need you had, and no more.

Sometimes, like I said, using an IDE increase the productivity for a particular technology (I am thinking about Spring technology and Android, for example) so sometimes I use IDE like InteliJ but I think using one tool to edit every files increase your general productivity a lot. Same keymaps for general navigation, specific keymaps for specific file extension, everything is about productivity.

Shreyansh Pandey

node, coffee and everything in between

Dec 13, 2018

Gustavo Benedito Costa

...but actually they pirated it...

Not really. It completely depends on the level of development you are doing. Starting out, yeah, many do. But once you get professional, you need the license.

Further, IDE's, according to me, are only useful for C#, Java and Swift. Apart from that, it's really bloated.

Mark

Dec 13, 2018

While JetBrains IDE are better, if they're too expensive, there are free IDEs which I'd still use before going back to a text editor.

Personally I pay less than 0.10€ per hour, which in my country is easy to earn back in extra productivity, but I understand it's different elsewhere.

Other than that I'm not going to argue against text editors more here. It's not really my problem if other people are unproductive :-)

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