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

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Orian de Wit

Because IDEs are opinionated, and devs love customization and control.

I use a few of the Jetbrains IDEs every day, and I consider a "full IDE" a necessity when working on a large complex codebase.

But my frustrations still stand: IDEs can be slow, bloated and buggy, and it's often difficult to get things working exactly to your liking.

So I fully understand that those working on nicely separated JavaScript components or a single Python script choose VSCode, Atom or Vim — I personally don't find it viable though when working on a large & sometimes messy backend framework.

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Alex Fedorov

In these environments, I sometimes would choose such a tool as well. “Right tool for the job” as they say.