[curiousjorge]

when you are dealing with a small project notepad++ might be fine but large codebase and frontend development it would be counter productive to not use IDE

The 'complexity of IDE' is overrated. Once you've memorized the hot keys, it makes a world of difference, running grep to find a piece of code you don't remember hidden under layers of inheritence. You are setting up for failure if you act like a luddite.

[learning_still]

The article is about why so many people were able to customize their myspace pages but not their internet browsers. It's about the transition of a new user to that of a programmer. My response is in the context of the article. It has nothing to do with whether or not IDE's are good or bad for advanced users with large projects.