基于gui的ide(如Visual Studio和Eclipse)比基于文本的ide(如Emacs或vim)有几个优势，因为它们具有显示功能:

所见即所得预览和实时编辑的GUI设计 高效的属性编辑器(例如;使用GUI调色板选择颜色，包括定位渐变停止等) 代码概要、文件相互关系等的图形化描述 更有效地使用屏幕空间来显示断点、书签、错误等 更好的拖放支持操作系统和其他应用程序 集成编辑图纸、图像、3D模型等 显示和编辑数据库模型

基本上，使用基于gui的IDE，你可以在屏幕上获得更多有用的信息，你可以像查看文本部分一样轻松地查看/编辑应用程序的图形部分。

作为开发人员，最酷的事情之一是编辑一个计算一些数据的方法，并看到代码的实时输出以图形方式显示在另一个窗口中，就像你的用户在运行应用程序时看到的那样。现在，这就是所见即所得编辑!

基于文本的ide(如Emacs和vim)可以随着时间的推移添加代码补全和重构等特性，因此从长远来看，它们的主要限制是基于文本的显示模型。

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.

我喜欢IDE，因为它能在我的指尖提供很多功能。编辑/编译/项目中文件的可见性是我在IDE中所看重的一切。我现在使用Visual Studio，但在以前我使用slikedit，并发现它使我的开发过程比我不使用它时更流畅。

不同的人可能有不同的原因。对我来说，这些都是优势。

为项目提供了一种完整的感觉。例如，我将有所有相关的项目文件在单一视图。 提供了更高的代码生产力，如 语法高亮显示 程序集引用 智能感知 数据库和相关UI文件的集中视图。 调试特性

最后，它帮助我更快地编写代码，而不是在记事本或写字板上。这是我更喜欢IDE的一个很好的理由。

It's really VERY simple. But this answer is a bit of a paradox in that I am discussing something only EMBEDDED level developers ever encounter. The reason this is an odd view is that frankly when I was doing embedded work (the brief time I was making any real money) an IDE would be down right STRANGE and most of your coworkers would wonder why you can't remember enough about SNMP/ASN.1 or whatever protocol you were dealing with to just /do your job/. BUT you can NOT, as far as I know, do a graphical simulation of what your microcontroller is doing in something like /real time/ without an "IDE".

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.