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.

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。

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:)

智能感知、集成调试器和即时窗口使我的工作效率大大提高(Visual Studio 2008)。有了一切触手可及的东西，我可以在写代码的时候把一个庞大项目的绝大部分都记在脑子里。微软可能一直在他们的操作系统上犯错，但是Visual Studio是有史以来最好的产品之一。

不要认为这是排他性的。使用IDE来获得它所提供的好处，当需要集中精力时切换到vim/首选的文本编辑器。

我发现IDE更适合重构、浏览、调试以及找出要做的事情。然后在IDE中完成小的事情，大的事情我切换到vim来完成。

IDE可能是一个“优越”的选择，这取决于开发人员试图实现的目标。

文本编辑器可能更“优越”，因为ide通常面向一种(或一小部分)语言。

如果一个开发人员大部分时间都在单一语言或相关语言的“集群”(如c#和T-SQL)上，在一个操作系统中，那么一个好的IDE所提供的GUI设计、调试、智能感知、重构等工具就会非常引人注目。例如，如果你大部分时间都在VB上工作。NET，在Windows环境中可能偶尔会用到一点T-SQL，那么如果你不考虑Visual Studio或类似的IDE，那就太愚蠢了。

我对那些喜欢ide或文本编辑器的人没有偏见，如果学得好，两者都可以非常有效和有用!