Which IDE are we talking about? Because the things you mention that you are able to do that your IDE couldn’t (without needing to write your own plugin) are things that most of the IDEs I know about can do, either out of the box or with widely used plugins. And I cringe at the thought of writing your own syntax highlighting, let alone intellisense or advanced refactoring capabilities.
The question is often whether the IDE can work for me with all of the languages, frameworks, and tools I use. While it may be helpful in some, if it doesn't cover them all it ends up adding a mental burden as you need to know the tool's way plus the fallback manual way to unsupported features. Or you end up having multiple IDEs for different frameworks, which again increases memory overhead.
Quite right. If you work with a great many languages, which don't overlap well enough in IDE support, then the number+size of those IDEs becomes a factor (at least, if you want them all to be open at the same time). I'd however wager that there is sufficient variation between developer circumstances there, to make the above general dismissal of IDEs invalid/wrong.
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Which IDE are we talking about? Because the things you mention that you are able to do that your IDE couldn’t (without needing to write your own plugin) are things that most of the IDEs I know about can do, either out of the box or with widely used plugins. And I cringe at the thought of writing your own syntax highlighting, let alone intellisense or advanced refactoring capabilities.
The question is often whether the IDE can work for me with all of the languages, frameworks, and tools I use. While it may be helpful in some, if it doesn't cover them all it ends up adding a mental burden as you need to know the tool's way plus the fallback manual way to unsupported features. Or you end up having multiple IDEs for different frameworks, which again increases memory overhead.
Quite right. If you work with a great many languages, which don't overlap well enough in IDE support, then the number+size of those IDEs becomes a factor (at least, if you want them all to be open at the same time). I'd however wager that there is sufficient variation between developer circumstances there, to make the above general dismissal of IDEs invalid/wrong.