我认为这主要与开发者的认知范围有关。IDE提供了开发人员工作环境的宏观视图。您可以同时看到类层次结构、引用的资源、数据库模式、SDK帮助引用等。而且，由于您的击键会影响和影响如此多的事情，以及体系结构和体系结构交叉点的数量不断扩大，一次只使用一个代码岛工作变得越来越困难。

OTOH，“只有我和vim和手册页”让我对我的工作有了一个更精简的微观——但强烈而精确的——视图。如果我有一个用一种语言和一组静态库构建的设计良好、分区良好、稀疏耦合且高度内聚的代码库，那么这是可以的——这不是典型的情况，特别是当开发团队规模随着时间、距离和个人偏好而增长并重新构建代码结构时。

I'm currently working on projects in Flex and .NET. One of the nicer things about Flex is how few different ways there are to accomplish a standard thing - pull data from a database, open/close/read/write a file, etc. (Yet I'm using the Flex Builder/Eclipse IDE - a typical heavy-weight example like VS, because I'm still learning the basics and I need the training wheels. I expect to evolve back to vim once I'm confident of my patterns.) In this view, I can do what I need to do professionally by knowing a few things really really well.

OTOH, I can't imagine getting to that point with .NET because the view I'm expected to maintain keeps expanding and shifting. There much less conceptual integrity, and over several developers on a project over several months, much less consistency - but the IDE supports that, maybe encourages it. So the developer really needs to (and can more easily) know many more things adequately. Which also has the benefit of helping them answer (or even understand) a lot higher percentage of the questions on StackOverflow. I.e. we can have a deeper knowledge stack. And we can respond to a wider variety of help-wanted ads.

事情可能会朝着两个方向发展。也许对于“仅编辑器”作用域，这就像“如果你只有一把锤子，那么所有东西看起来都像钉子”。使用IDE方法，对于任何您想要固定在一起的东西，您都有广泛的紧固件和相关的工具范围可供选择- nals/锤子，螺钉/螺丝刀，螺栓/扳手，粘合剂/胶枪/夹子，磁铁等等-所有这些都在您的指尖(有向导帮助您开始)。

For me, an IDE is better because it allows faster navigation in code which is important if you have something in your mind to implement. Supposed you do not use an IDE, it takes longer to get to the destination. Your thoughts may be interupted more often. It means more clicks/more keys have to be pressed. One has to concentrate more on the thought how to implement things. Of course, you can write down things too but then one must jump between the design and implementation. Also, a GUI designer makes a big difference. If you do that by hand, it may take longer.

I'm not sure there's a clear dividing line between a text editor and an IDE. You have the likes of Notepad at one end of the scale, and the best modern IDEs at the other, but there are a lot of thing in between. Most text editors have syntax highlighting; editors aimed at programmers often have various other features such as easy code navigation and auto complete. Emacs even lets you integrate a debugger. The IDEs of even ten years ago had far less features to help programmers than you'd expect of a serious text editor these days.

除了其他答案之外，我喜欢使用类似于Eclipse的ViPlugin之类的东西，将IDE的开发能力与Vim的编辑能力结合起来。

在决定是否使用IDE时，只需要考虑一件事，那就是它是否能提高您的工作效率。

简单的问题，简单的回答:)

我使用Emacs作为开发和邮件/新闻的主要环境已经有大约10年了(1994-2004)。当我在2004年强迫自己学习Java时，我发现了IDE的力量，令我惊讶的是，我实际上喜欢IDE (IntelliJ IDEA)。

我不会详细说明原因，因为很多原因已经在这里提到过了——只要记住，不同的人喜欢不同的功能。我和一个同事使用同一个IDE，我们都只使用了可用功能的一小部分，我们都不喜欢彼此使用IDE的方式(但我们都喜欢IDE本身)。

但是我想强调的是ide相对于Emacs/Vim相关环境有一个优势:您可以花费更少的时间安装/配置所需的特性。

使用Wing IDE(适用于Python)，我可以在安装后15-20分钟开始开发。不知道我需要多少小时才能让我使用的特性在Emacs/Vim中运行。：）