How many of you use an .....

.....IDE?

No seriously I want to know. Don't act all like haxxorz from the '70s.

You are anonymous after all.

I myself am a newbie who was introduced to /prog/ramming using Borland's Turbo Pascal. Then I began using gedit when I began learning OOp in Java. And recently I began learning Vi but I'm still quite clumsy with it. All I am wondering is if it's really a good idea or just a waste of time?

So how many of /prog/ prefer a GUI editor over a CLI editor or even an IDE over an text editor?

Pascal was infinity more fun than JAVA lol

Not as a primary way of programming, no, I don't use IDEs. If I could get intellisense in vim, then I wouldn't see a point of IDEs at all.

Nowadays I write a lot of C# and people think that documenting their libraries isn't necessary, because they have their IDEs with code completion and inline XML documentation, god damit. I don't want to read documentation in an IDE, that's retarder. So, yeah, I have to sometimes use IDE, because that's easier than reading the source.