It's fine, it sounds like you're an enterprise programmer and that suits your role/use case.

I use zed with the inbuilt terminal, additional terminals + tools like pgcli and docker. I would feel trapped/impotent using an IDE, esp combined with the lack of snappiness a java app gives you.

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9dev 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Couldn’t be further from Enterprise luckily, but it leaves me wondering if I’m missing the forest for the trees?

Maybe it’s just a difference in working style. I would feel exhausted by having to learn and maintain a bunch of tools instead of just one, sprinkled with occasional anxiety if there is a better or upstart competing tool that I should be using.

	▲	k9294 5 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It’s most likely about different ecosystems. JetBrains provides excellent support for many programming ecosystems, but if yours isn’t supported, you don’t have much choice. I was an avid JetBrains user until I needed to work with Elixir. You simply can’t do Elixir in their IDEs. So I switched to VS Code. After more than a year of using VS Code, you develop muscle memory for it. At this point, I don’t really care about the differences anymore and I’m happy with VS Code.
	▲	mvATM99 5 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I don't think youre missing out necessarily. I would riot if i couldn't use Pycharm anymore, for big python projects just nothing beats it right now. I do use VSCode too, but mostly for quick scripting or non-programming projects. and even then i installed a bunch of extensions to make it more like Pycharm.

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giancarlostoro 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

In my case, my employers forbid tools like JetBrains so I am paying out of pocket for tooling I cannot even use most of my day. I rather just invest in making a different tool better, even if that means doing a few PRs here and there.