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[–] 3 points 3 years ago

In my experience it HEAVILY depends on the language you're using. Nothing beats Intellij for Java or Kotlin, but Rust and Go feel at home in any editor.

I know that LSPs and DAPs somewhat take care of these, but the following are often easier in IDEs:

  • Refactorings, including really smart language specific ones
  • Support for fancy frameworks. For example, Intellij can analyse all annotations for Dependency Injection or Spring stuff, and will then tell you exactly how everything connects on a higher "framework" level. Arguably, this is a solution to a problem Enterprise Java created
  • Debugging is easier
  • In general, stuff works "well enough" out of the box. As a fan of Neovim, I've definitely been frustrated a lot the first time I had to set something up
  • Fancy integrations, for example linking frontend code calling backend code directly, or an entire little Database Manager builtin, with magic SQL code completion
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