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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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.