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> Some people are happy in their IDEs and see no reason to move to the lower-level of abstraction in their tooling.

True but you're also at the mercy of whatever company is responsible for developing those IDEs. I'm not advocating everyone do development in shell but I feel like you should know what's going under the hood when things go wrong.

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> True but you're also at the mercy of whatever company is responsible for developing those IDEs.

With all the IDE companies being so ruthless, I wonder where are all those screwed-over IDE users running to.

I mean, we know the answer to this as it started the argument, right?... vim, emacs, and a handful of programmer-oriented GUI text editors such as Sublime Text (or whatever; I don't use them so I might be mixing up "what's cool" or be so out of date as to be laughable).

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