Comment by mamcx

I have done +12 langs (used for work) with a variation of some using an IDE, a user-facing GUI (like Excel/VBA/SQL Admins), others just a text editor, etc

Some have auto-complete, others do not.

I use some of these combos at the same time.

The main thing I learned is that certain languages are made for one way or another.

For example, python, SQL.

There is not much you get from a IDE for python, and a good editor make wonders. SQL is braindead and bad designed, so the only moment you wanna to autocomplete (for get fields) any tool I have used fails (ironically, this one thing where copilot actually improves it).

So, if the language is made to work well without ide, it will work well.

What is a terrible mistake is refusing to use an IDE (or IDE-like capabilities) for languages like Rust, C++, C, etc...