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Am i missing out if I dont use an IDE? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Ministar@lemmy.world to c/programming

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So, I have been mostly self thaught programmer (C++), as its a big part of my job (not a regular developer). But so far I have been using a simple text editor like Geany to code and I compile stuff either in terminal (linux) or produce my own make file.

I am starting to wonder if I should switch to a full IDE, as I am on linux, I was thinking of trying KDevelop. But I am simply not sure if its worth, do I even need it?

I have never used an IDE, it seems kind of complicated for the start with "projects" and I havent really found any good introductions to how this workflow is supposed to work.

Do you think using and IDE is something everyone should use? Or do you think a text editor with producing your own make files should be enough?

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[–] BlueBockser@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tbh, that just sounds like an IDE with extra steps. IntelliJ for example does all of those things as well IIRC and you don't need to rely on third-party tools.

Of course you'll learn a lot more along the way if you configure vim to effectively be an IDE, but the end result is not that different.

[–] communist 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

While it was a ton of configuration work, it's now an extremely slim text editor that I use for literally every text file on my computer

I don't think intellij's performance could compare.

Plus, now that it's already configured, I just have to share my dotfiles and it's immediately setup anyway, and I love how vim works with modality and all, i'm not familiar with intellij but it'd have to do quite a lot to sway me at this point.