What follows is a totally irrelevant post in this thread, sorry.

I do the same but I use micro-emacs and can't stand tabbed terminals. I like to take my time scrolling the page of errors and jumping to the offending line in another terminal. It's like a zen exercise. I start thinking subconciously the problem in these few seconds between switching contexts and that helps me.

I have to admit that when I had to use it, Android Studio feels like flying a JumboJet. I press a button and the drinks cart comes out. A lot of these I could make with a Makefile and scripts, e.g. to upload the app to the emulator etc. And I would prefer it that way.

I often wonder what productivity does the IDE offer? The one it comes to mind is autocompleting method names in classes, checking arguments etc. that's cool as it saves me time to look up the docs. But what company would deny paying their developers an extra hour per day for reading documentation? And instead get them an IDE to save money? Oh yes: Fools Inc.!

Of all the free code out there I avoid like the plague those integrated with Xcode and VisualStudio. I just don't bother with these (anymore).

So, I would use an IDE if it guarantees that compiled code can be achieved also via the command line without that IDE.

And another thought, there is so much effort put into graphical editors, let's say Android Studio's UI builder (in olden times it was Access db). It's almost impossible to be able to explain or get help from a text-based forum. I consider heroes those answering those queries with a ton of screenshots and phrases like Menu->X->Y->Z click, drag, left-holder, etc. Instead there is a perfectly sane XML-based UI language there. The point here is that "Menu->X->Y .." is the lowest form of knowledge.

So, what I am trying to say is that IDE is cool but they start innocent and before you know it, you depend so much on it you can't escape it. Hello IDEs, welcome and join the queue. So many of you battling for my soul.

bw, bliako