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by joaquin_win 5223 days ago
One of the biggest pluses of an IDE is the contextual access to the API. This helps a lot when learning a new language/framework.

I haven't used many IDEs lately by when I was learning Java, netbeans was my best friend.

Aside from that, maybe the easy access to debugging. Although tests have made debugging less necessary for me.