[ Thanks to codez for this
link. ]
Call it a back-to-basics movement or simply professionals
seeking the best tools to get the job done well and on time. With
enterprises putting a premium on productivity, a quiet revolution
among programmers is eschewing the heavy, feature-filled IDE and
turning instead to the venerable standby: the code editor.“The spark behind this growing trend comes down to
control–enterprises tout IDEs as the development tool du jour,
with supporters arguing that programmers will get more done if they
can do all their work inside a single environment. But many
programmers (especially experienced ones) prefer a markedly
different approach, using code editors and pluggable modules,
modes, or other extendibility features to pick and choose just the
tools they need. They don’t enjoy being shoved into a single
development environment, and contend that IDEs are
resource-intensive, slow, and have many more features than are
really needed to get the job done…”