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by throwasehasdwi 3379 days ago
Your complaints against "heavy" IDE's don't make sense. All of the points you made either aren't valid or don't matter.

- They're slow and clunky Not anything I've used. Eclipse and Visual Studio run nice and smooth on a decent machine.

- The use up a ton of memory. Who cares. Slack and anything based on electron uses hundreds of megabytes. Chrome regularly uses gigs. Most of the IDE's I use take less than 500 megabytes of ram, even phones have plenty.

- They make your team lazy when it comes to structuring your source code into proper folders Absolutely not. Your reasoning is that making things easier = making code worse. The IDE you use has nothing to do with your dev culture

- They take ages to install. Some of them do, notably Visual Studio. All the other ones I've used just take a few minutes. Also, who cares??? You only have to install it once, what is 5 minutes for an app you're going to use for thousands of hours???

- Support fewer operating systems. No. IDE's based on java run on almost anything. Again I think you're speaking from the experience of using visual studio.

- Are usually proprietary and difficult to customize. Also no. Every IDE I've used supports plugins and an unholy amount of configuration options. Every IDE I use is open source, again except visual studio.

- More prone to bugs. What? Why? How?

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Alot of these things do matter and it seems to me like all you're doing here is excusing bloat via hyperbole. I don't even agree necessarily with a lot of the parent comment, but I disagree with yours.