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by st-enthusiast 3968 days ago
I prefer the IDE to an editor because I don't have to type as much boilerplate. For example, to create a class I just fill out a class template and accept, and to add a method I just type code in the method pane and accept. The IDE is built just for Smalltalk and is extremely productive as a result.

With Emacs + SLIME, I still find myself typing a lot of "(defun...", "(defmacro...", and "(defclass...") boilerplate.