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Discussion on: What do you prefer: general all-in-one tools or focused single domain tools?

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ScottHarwoodTech

So I adopted a mentality from bash of "do one thing well" I would rather use single tools that are really good at what they are trying to do than use one tool that does a lot of things but not very well, another aspect is that tools should have good integration layers so it's easy to connect them together, just my 2 cents though. All the best, Scott

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Damir Franusic

Totally agree, we share a similar mindset; I use Vim with some plugins and do compiling and debugging manually. Never been a fan of all-in-one solutions like IDEs.

This is how I work these days: