I used to love IDEs with immediate feedback on the code, and a modern VSCode setup can really shine in this regards. But these days I’m going for a minimalistic approach where I don’t want to see anything in my screen but the code. I use Neovim and while I use plugins for formatting code on save, my screen is absolutely code only. No linting hints, no function definition appearing when I hover thr mouse, nothing at all. It’s far less distracting and you also feel much less constrained, even if I unconsciously already write the code in a way that the linter doesn’t complain (too much) later. I haven’t noticed any drop in my productivity in the last year I’ve been doing this.