[abhisuri97]

I had to teach web dev to students who were coming straight out of the intro courses that used Eclipse and yeah...everything that the author is saying here is right and these IDEs do a disservice to them. A surprising amount of students don't have an idea of working around the command line, file systems, and in general develop poor debugging skills (and, in turn, poor programming skills since they're used to eclipse etc filling in everything for them).

I think a good middleground is the IDE that CS50 has their students use. It gives them exposure to the command line and allows them to actually debug on their own. Of course, utilization of that IDE in intro CS courses means that these courses won't be using java anymore (and I frankly have no idea why it's still a mainstay of cs courses to this day).