Hi experienced devs , I am a beginner programmer. I mostly use code completion and go-to source , and rename function and objects, code-pretty. Other features not so much. What features do you use often And what features are not that useful in an IDE and can be considered bloat? P.S.- Which is that one feature that you can’t live without?( sorry for sounding like tiktok wannabe)
Depends. For some languages, you may not need them. They do help. I code in G’MIC (Domain-Specific Language) and there is zero IDE for it, but yet, with terminal and a text editor (KDE Kate), I was able to be more productive than I was with Python using Pycharm.
Yet, with C++, I prefer to use IDE as it gives me clues to what I need to insert.