Discussion on: Why Are Some Developers so Allergic to IDEs?

[Adrian B.G.]

from observing these kind of devs I have found they have any/all of:

• work mainly with small projects that are fine with a simple text editor
• stubbornness
• rigid personality
• resistance to change
• laziness (to learn something new and better)
• Sadomasochism
• lack of professionalism (you know you can deliver more with an IDE but do not)
• subjective reasons (love to a specific text editor)

yeah, I'm looking at you vim priests 👀

[nuclearnic]

laziness (to learn something new and better

You're saying this to people who have learned Vim?

[Alex Fedorov]

I agree with all the points. There is another kind:

In other threads here, it seems that some people had experience seeing some other developers using IDE and flailing as programmers. It seemed that IDE users that never had non-IDE experience may have a not-deep-enough understanding of foundational concepts of the language, build system, etc.

Also, there are some notions about “for people working on Enterprise languages/platforms.” (used in a bad sense)