我从相反的方向来回答这个问题。我从小就在Makefile+Emacs的环境中编程。从我最早的DOS编译器，微软的Quick C，我有一个IDE自动化的事情。我在Visual c++ 6.0上工作了很多年，当我毕业到Enterprise Java时，我使用Borland JBuilder，然后决定使用Eclipse，这对我来说已经变得非常高效。

Throughout my initial self-teaching, college, and now professional career, I have come to learn that any major software development done solely within the IDE becomes counterproductive. I say this because most IDE's wants you to work in their peculiar I-control-how-the-world-works style. You have to slice and dice your projects along their lines. You have manage your project builds using their odd dialog boxes. Most IDE's manage complex build dependencies between projects poorly, and dependencies can be difficult to get working 100%. I have been in situations where IDE's would not produce a working build of my code unless I did a Clean/Rebuild All. Finally, there's rarely a clean way to move your software out of development and into other environments like QA or Production from an IDE. It's usually a clicky fest to get all your deployment units built, or you've got some awkward tool that the IDE vendor gives you to bundle stuff up. But again, that tool usually demands that your project and build structure absolutely conforms to their rules - and sometimes that just won't work for your projects' requirements.

我了解到，要与团队一起进行大规模开发，如果我们使用IDE开发代码，并使用手动编写的命令行脚本进行所有构建，那么我们可以获得最高的效率。(我们喜欢用Apache Ant进行Java开发。)我们发现在IDE中运行我们的脚本对于复杂的构建来说只是一个点击或者自动化的噩梦，用alt+tab到一个shell并在那里运行脚本要容易得多(而且破坏性更小)。

Manual builds requires us to miss out on some of the niceties in the modern IDE like background compilation, but what we gain is much more critical: clean and easy builds that can live in multiple environments. The "one click build" all those agile guys talk about? We have it. Our build scripts can be directly invoked by continuous integration systems as well. Having builds managed through continuous integration allows us to more formally stage and migrate your code deployments to different environments, and lets us know almost immediately when someone checks in bad code that breaks the build or unit tests.

In truth, my taking the role of build away from the IDE hasn't hurt us too badly. The intellisense and refactoring tools in Eclipse are still completely useful and valid - the background compilation simply serves to support those tools. And, Eclipse's peculiar slicing of projects has served as a very nice way to mentally break down our problem sets in a way everyone can understand (still a tad bit verbose for my tastes though). I think one of the most important things about Eclipse is the excellent SCM integrations, that's what makes team development so enjoyable. We use Subversion+Eclipse, and that has been very productive and very easy to train our people to become experts at.

这取决于你使用的语言，但在c#和Java中，我发现ide对以下方面有好处:

Quickly navigating to a type without needing to worry about namespace, project etc Navigating to members by treating them as hyperlinks Autocompletion when you can't remember the names of all members by heart Automatic code generation Refactoring (massive one) Organise imports (automatically adding appropriate imports in Java, using directives in C#) Warning-as-you-type (i.e. some errors don't even require a compile cycle) Hovering over something to see the docs Keeping a view of files, errors/warnings/console/unit tests etc and source code all on the screen at the same time in a useful way Ease of running unit tests from the same window Integrated debugging Integrated source control Navigating to where a compile-time error or run-time exception occurred directly from the error details. Etc!

所有这些都节省时间。这些事情我可以手动完成，但会更痛苦:我宁愿编写代码。

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。

对我来说，这肯定会提高我的工作效率。我甚至在Vista上的Visual Studio中编写Linux应用程序，然后使用Linux虚拟机来构建它们。

你不需要记住函数或方法调用的所有参数，一旦你开始输入它，IDE就会告诉你需要什么参数。您可以使用向导来设置项目属性、编译器选项等。您可以在整个项目中搜索内容，而不仅仅是当前文档或文件夹中的文件。如果你得到一个编译器错误，双击它，它会直接把你带到有问题的行。

集成了模型编辑器、连接和浏览外部数据库、管理代码“片段”集合、GUI建模工具等工具。所有这些东西都可以单独使用，但是将它们都放在同一个开发环境中可以节省大量时间，并使开发过程更有效地进行。

我也几乎只使用Vim(几乎是因为我现在正在尝试学习emacs)来完成我的所有开发工作。我认为纯粹的直观性(当然来自GUI)是人们喜欢使用ide的主要原因。通过直观，几乎不需要学习工具的开销。学习开销越少，他们完成的工作就越多。

这在很大程度上取决于你在做什么，以及你用什么语言来做。就我个人而言,我倾向于不使用IDE(或“我的IDE包含3 xterm vim运行,运行数据库客户端,和一个bash提示或尾矿日志”,这取决于你广泛的定义IDE)的大部分时间里我的工作,但是,如果我发现自己开发一个platform-native GUI,然后我会找一个瞬间看清IDE——国际海事组织、IDE和图形形式编辑显然是天生的一对。