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)

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    1 year ago

    Disclaimer: I’m not super experienced.

    I’d say it heavily depends on your usecase. If you’re the type of person to only really code in one language and don’t really want to tinker too much then an IDE is perfect.

    If you love tinkering with your editor and tweak it to be just perfect you also have stuff like emacs or vim.

    As for the feature I can’t live without: a good vim mode. Once you’re used to editing text in vim, going back to a mouse based workflow is a really big pain.