[apothegm]

There are plenty of people who still use nothing but a CLI text editor like vim. Nothing wrong with sticking with simpler tools. And as you point out, if you’ve got good keyboard shortcuts, using the terminal for most of the fancy stuff an IDE does is just as quick and often more flexible.

You’ll see more IDE use in the .Net and Java worlds. The startup environment is much more diverse. And honestly, the VSCode bandwagon is pretty new, too. Until 5 years ago, Sublime and its ilk were the default. I for one still find IDEs unergonomic and am sticking with my text editor of choice.

The one downside to a plain text editor is that you wont be able to integrate well with coding assistance features like copilot, or get some of the tools an IDE gives you for minor refactoring and other common tasks.

[siddheshgunjal]

Yup, for most of my work, which is mostly python, js, php Sublime works well with autocomplete. For flutter I use LSP for some refactoring suggestions and other tasks like wrapping a widget, etc.