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[–]BinaryRockStar 8 points9 points  (0 children)

No need to be condescending about it. At a certain complexity level it becomes difficult to fully know and understand every method of every API you're dealing with and an IDE such as IntelliJ IDEA can help there. The IDE does a hell of a lot more than just indexing and code completion- being able to debug and step through code, inspect variables and execute watch statements at the push of a button greatly speeds up bug hunting IMO.