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Are IDEs mostly bloatware? (self.ask_experienced_devs)

submitted 1 year ago by bullshitter to c/ask_experienced_devs

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Hi experienced devs , I am a beginner programmer. I mostly use code completion and go-to source , and rename function and objects, code-pretty. Other features not so much. What features do you use often And what features are not that useful in an IDE and can be considered bloat? P.S.- Which is that one feature that you can't live without?( sorry for sounding like tiktok wannabe)

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[–] Reptorian 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Depends. For some languages, you may not need them. They do help. I code in G'MIC (Domain-Specific Language) and there is zero IDE for it, but yet, with terminal and a text editor (KDE Kate), I was able to be more productive than I was with Python using Pycharm.

Yet, with C++, I prefer to use IDE as it gives me clues to what I need to insert.