Since coding isn’t my day job. I use slickedit as a nice fully featured text editor. Or notepad++ in a pinch.
Personally haven’t used a full IDE since netbeans 15 years ago in my university days
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Once again it seems like I don't even have an IQ ¯\(ツ)/¯
Emac?
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You can code in a text editor. It is cumbersome and annoying, but possibly.
You should however use a good ide if you want to be productive
You clearly haven't done much backend or middleware development.
It depends.
You don't want to write Java or kotlin in a text editor and gather the terminal commands for compiling and stuff when you could use an ide for that.
However there is not much difference writing C in an editor and compile it with make than using an ide. But in both cases I would prefer an ide.
The only reason why I would not use one is when there are incompatibilities or other special setups that make using an ide more work than an editor
"it depends" is something I can agree on.
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