IDEs

Why does /prog/ hate IDEs? What is so bad about having syntax formatting (which is always customizable), file managers, or -most of all- the ability to debug, link, compile, and execute your program with just the click of a button or two?

Give me one good reason why excessive, redundtant TACKATACKATACKATACKA with a weak-ass text editor and having to manually type commands for linking and compiling is superior.

I don't think you can do it. You're all jackasses who would rather look like a UBER 1337 H4X0R than efficiently code a decent program.

The Microsoft Visual Studio C# IDE is actually pretty sweet. I'd say for GUI based dev, an IDE with some sort of WYSIWYG dialog editor is essential; you just can't work as productively under a text based environment. For the occasional small console application, or if you want to just experiment with some small piece of toy code, then something like emacs or notepad++ is fine.

As >>1 points out, IDE's are great especially for debugging; GDB simply does not compare to the Visual Studio debugger in terms of efficiency and productivity.