You can't achieve what a modern IDE can do using a simple editor and the command line.
Autocomplete, hinting, type checking, navigation, documentation display, automated refactoring, interactive debugging, and integration with other tools like test runners and databases, are some of the major features which yes, are indeed force multipliers.
This all becomes even more important when working on large codebases, and/or code you didn't write all yourself.
Autocomplete, hinting, type checking, navigation, documentation display, automated refactoring, interactive debugging, and integration with other tools like test runners and databases, are some of the major features which yes, are indeed force multipliers.
This all becomes even more important when working on large codebases, and/or code you didn't write all yourself.