from Hacker News

The Dangers of an IDE

by JensRantil on 3/11/25, 10:28 AM with 2 comments

  • by watt on 3/11/25, 10:35 AM

    I worked with a guy who insisted on using Neovim to work on a large Java monolith project. He was surprisingly unproductive. Took days to deliver features (code) that folks using IDE (Intellij IDEA) could crank out in a matter of hours.

    The danger of not using an IDE is that you will fall behind in productivity and get fired because you are not performing at a level expected from your seniority.