[mytherin]

Maybe I'm the odd one out, but this describes me to a T. I started programming primarily using Visual Studio on Windows which I used for several years. It has a nice debugger, but the IDE in general was so painfully slow and bloated it actively took me out of my programming flow. I'm also in general not a big fan of all the clicking around that you needed to do in there. Configuring projects using the Visual Studio IDE was a terrible experience for me, and also supremely non-portable.

I moved away from Windows entirely, and switched to Sublime Text in combination with Unix-style tools (lldb, clang-format). Quickly jumping around in files and searching within the project is fantastic, and the editor is supremely responsive. I have since switched to Visual Studio Code, which is slightly slower than Sublime Text but still fast and responsive.

[treeman79]

Many years ago I ran vim as an IDE for several years and was quite happy. Eventually it got bloated and I just could not keep it functional without massive time investment. Maintaining indexes was biggest issue if I recall.