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)

  • o11c
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    1 year ago

    As a rule, and Integrated Development Environment is less than the sum of its parts. Whether it is worth using depends on:

    • how many of the parts you actually need to use
    • to what extent you would benefit to use features of a part that are not exposed by the IDE
    • whether you find it easier to switch between different windows (involving tools with different UIs) for different tasks, or use the same window for different tasks.
    • whether the language you’re using is statically or dynamically typed, and whether it’s syntactically “simple” or complicated (this affects the difficulty of “manual” refactoring)