[dmingod666]

The same reason cooks have to buy ingredients. The same reason a factory making tools first needs to buy other tools.

A backend developer will not write an IDE, heck, he probably won't even write most of the code in his own codebase even if he's a single dev.

[ipaddr]

The best ones grow their own ingredients. It changes the product.

They may source locally but they avoid national chains.

But yes most backend developers will never write an IDE. Most backend developers would love to be on a team creating one.

[dmingod666]

"To make an apple pie from scratch, you first need to make the universe" :)