[nilkn]

I'm of the opinion that a well-engineered IDE is almost always better than a simple text editor. I "grew up" using Visual Studio on Windows. That said, I find myself using vim and Sublime Text fairly frequently.

Both are useful because they're universal for all languages, simple, quick, and pretty much are guaranteed to have a high base-line level of quality. vim is also useful because it's available on virtually every Unix machine, meaning I can use it on remote machines I've ssh'd into.

With these editors, I also think there's a certain pleasure in starting from a mostly blank slate and installing only the plugins you're personally interested in. The result feels less bloated because it's optimized for precisely one person: you.