I really never understood what benefits an IDE has over Notepad++, they take up SOOOO much drive space for me when all i want to do is make a mod to someone elses file..

[–] zaubentrucker@sopuli.xyz 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

You get the most out of them when working on bigger projects with many files and multiple contributers:

Version control integration
Automatic profiling
Debugger integration
Refactoring
Jump to Definition/Parent/Children/Usages of a Symbol
...

For changing a single file, I'd often just launch a simple editor too.

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 days ago

Version control integration

Almost always garbage, in my experience. Except for merge conflict resolution. That's unbelievably nice. But git command lines have always been more reliable and less likely to end up with broken local branches.

Seriously though. The merge conflict resolution in three panes is super nice.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago

If you all you need a text editor... great. But an IDE gives you tons of tools, such as debugging, breakpoints, memory inspection, intergated terminals, some may even include visual gui editors. Thats why they are called "Development environments".