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"Out of curiosity, what is it about an IDE that you find useful...?"

I really don't understand this question. It is like asking "What is it about SolidWorks that you find so useful"



Well solid works does things the command line can’t. After all these amazing answers, my main takeaways for “what can an IDE do better than terminal+text editor” are:

1. Debugging right in the code, rather than in an ugly terminal copy of the code next to it (sounds nice!)

2. Better semantic features in language-specific IDEs (autocomplete, refactoring, etc).

Certainly those things sound nice, but I hope you see how they’re not essential!


After getting used to them they FEEL essential.




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