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

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This is the part that makes me the most nervous about using an IDE. Those pages upon pages of settings, all hidden away... You can hardly tell what the hell options it's using to build a given file. Someone could set a special compiler flag for one file somewhere, and you would never know it until it causes a bug, and then you're tearing your hair out for days.

I like makefiles because they are auditable. They constitute the complete set of explicit instructions for building the project; there are no hidden flags or mysterious options fucking with your build. They are properly revisioned. You can get a log of changes to it, and look at diffs between versions to see what's changed. Good luck doing that with an IDE project; the damn thing changes every time someone adds a file.