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by coldtea 4513 days ago
>When people extend their text editor (be it sublime, vim, emacs) with all these (often outdated) plugins i am left wondering why there is still so much hate for IDEs ?

Because most (all?) IDE's are slow. I've used Eclipse for years. Have also tried Idea and dabbled with NetBeans. I don't like their slow operation, nor they clunky UIs. And I don't find their speed, even today with an SSD and 8+GB of RAM, good enough. Tolerable might be a better word.

Plus their text-editing abilities leave a lot to be desired too.

>Why would i want to fiddle together my text editor with one-man plugins that often dont even work 100% ?

Well, my experience with IDEs is that their plugins and core functionality is not all roses either.