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

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Jeff Gortatowsky

I am not allergic. What does irk me about IntelliJ (which I have used since v5.x) is paying over and over again!!!!

However otherwise, once it's open and running, I leave it that way basically forever (or until a reboot). So startup time and overhead is not an issue. And the advantages (to me) are everything just seems to WORK seamlessly.

Whereas I do use Atom and Visual Code Studio, however everything requires all these plugins, all of which seem to fail, or require more configuration than their README.md says. And running things is basically the editor run a shell for me... hardly integration. Basically most IDEA plugins just work. Period. And seem to be part of the environment. Not an addon written in JS and CSS.

So call me an IDE fan... but a specific one. I DO NOT like eclipse. However that is probably because I am used to IDEA.