[troupo]

> I’m intrigued—what’s your setup?

Quite often it's vim/emacs with a crazy collection of plugins and custom-written scripts where the most powerful tool is a fuzzy search.

Surprisingly few people know what an actual powerful IDE can even do.

[toprerules]

Incorrect, many of them do, and make the determination that a few nice to have features doesn't outweigh the cost, lock in, and incongruence with the use of open source software where possible.

I know several world class developers who have invented corner stone technologies that use text editors without any plugins and just run the compiler in a separate window. It turns out that you actually are not held back by not having your hand held by an IDE, it was just a skill issue.

[troupo]

> Incorrect, many of them do,

Most of the time in these discussions it's revealed that no, they don't.

The rest is a non-sequitur

Edit: Oh. You don't know either https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43917174

[the__alchemist]

This gives me the impression that you are speaking about something you don't have tacit experience with.