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The same reason I don't use a Space Shuttle to travel to my granny that lives a 100km away.

I don't have to.

But it's got a lot to do with the fact that while IDE's are good for something like Java or C++ programming, they tend to become really crappy once you get into web development and have to regularly work with 5+ different languages at a time.

With most IDE's that would mean I'd have to have 5 of them open to work comfortably with every language.

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That's because most IDEs don't have good support for web development. (I wonder what would happen if they are good for web development, would people's opinion change?)

I used Vim to modify CSS and JS but I struggled to navigate JS code because I cannot jump to the method implementation with some sort of magical shortcut key easily. This is pretty tough if I want to know why I don't get my intended result out of calling the method.

To add injury to that, I found out that I have to redo the implementation and call the method something else to describe the intent in full. I can't refactor that easily without going to the path of hell: grep, regex, sed.

Re: jumping to method definitions, have you tried running ctags on your project directory, then pressing Ctrl-] (go to tag) on the method name? It should work.

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