至于我为什么使用IDE，简单的回答是懒惰。

我是一个懒惰的人，当有简单的方法时，我不喜欢用困难的方法来做事情。IDE使生活变得简单，因此吸引了我们懒人。

当我输入代码时，IDE会自动检查代码的有效性，我可以突出显示一个方法并点击F1以获得帮助，右键单击并选择“转到定义”以直接跳转到定义的位置。我按下一个按钮和应用程序，与调试器自动附加启动为我。这样的例子不胜枚举。开发人员每天所做的所有事情都集中在一个屋檐下。

不需要使用IDE。只是不这么做要难得多。

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。

节省开发时间 通过提供集成调试、智能感知等功能，使生活更轻松。

有很多，但我会建议使用一个，他们比明显。

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.

ide基本上是:

编辑器/代码完成，重构和文档 调试器 文件系统资源管理器 scm的客户 构建工具

都在一个包里。

您可以使用单独的工具或出色的可编程编辑器和额外的工具，如Emacs(也可以使用Vim，但IDEbility IMO稍微少一些)来实现所有这些功能(以及更多功能)。

如果您发现自己经常在一个实用程序和下一个可以集成到环境中的实用程序之间切换，或者如果您缺少这里列出的一些功能(其他文章中有更完整的功能)，那么可能是时候转移到IDE了(或者通过添加宏之类的方法来提高环境的ideability)。如果你已经用一个以上的程序构建了一个“IDE”(在我上面提到的意义上)，那么就没有必要转移到一个真正的IDE。

简单地说，IDE提供了比简单编辑器更省时的特性。