Take the 2-minute tour ×  I find myself using my text editor of
choice (vim, nano, gedit, pick your poison) much more often than
any IDE as of late.  After noticing my ide shortcuts getting
dusty I started to think about this and wonder: what justifies
use of an IDE for you opposed to a text editor?  For that matter
what rationale would you have for not using an IDE and merely
relying on an editor?  share|improve this question Personally, I
find IDE's a lot more useful when reading other people's code
(especially large projects) than when writing my own code. IDE's
let you navigate through the source more easily, making it
easier to quickly understand other people's source code. – 
Charles Salvia Nov 23 '10 at 22:46 I would like to turn the
question around. What justifies NOT using an IDE. –  Nailer Nov
24 '10 at 15:10  16 Answers 16  The I: integration. A good text
editor may be nice for writing code, but most of your
programming isn't spent writing; it's spent testing and
debugging, and for that you want yo