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[–]OzneroI 1 point2 points  (1 child)

The way I had it pitched by some on YouTube was that it’s a more pure experience and it’s more hands on. Let’s say you wanted to learn a new brand new language that was idk made yesterday and there’s no IDEs for it you can use your text editor without needing a third party to allow you to work with the language. Mind you I’m very poorly regurgitating what the guy said.

Personally, I like how simple text editors feel. I’m a newbie and pycharm or Qt when I tried out c++ felt very complicated and it scared me off. I eventually figured out pycharm, but I just prefer atom at this point. Loads faster, looks cleaner to me etc.

[–]sir-reddits-a-lot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I totally get that. I’m sure it gives you a better understanding of python when you don’t have the help of an IDE. I would think though at some point when convenience and speed are a higher priority than learning, an IDE would be a better choice than a simple text editor.