[JoBrad]

> The sole concept of IDEs specialized for one language makes me cringe.

Can you explain this a bit? I don't see that Sublime, VS Code, Atom, etc. were made for one language, at all. As a little background, I've used vim for a while, then switched to Sublime Text, and am just trying VS Code. I find Sublime/VS Code/Atom to be far easier to customize than vim.

[Ace17]

This is not what I said: I consider Atom and Sublime Text to be advanced general-purpose text editors, not IDEs.

I was indeed referring to Eclipse and Visual Studio. From what I observed around me, for some reason, people don't use these to edit:

- shellscripts/perlscripts/batchfiles.

- Files written in a in-house domain-specific language.

- Configuration files.

- Makefiles and project files: vcxproj, sln ...

Actually, I observed that these kind of IDEs discouraged people doing the above things, giving them the impression that it's not "real development" (I suspect that this is, in part, where the bizarre term "scripting language" comes from, but this is another debate).

[Skinney]

I'm pretty sure he is referring to Eclipse, Visual Studio and the like.