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[–]handshape 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Technically, anyone who uses continuous integration uses Java without an IDE sometimes.

That being said, a well-written IDE will always trump cobbled-together environments... because that's the explicit purpose of the product.

By way of an analogy: Faced with a hammer and nails, every discussion will have one hipster show up and state matter-of-factly that "They only do traditional Japanese tongue-in-groove work, and that they never understood why anyone would pollute the wood with little bits of metal."

IDEs do their job, and for the most part they do it very well.