Why I Hate Using IDE’s

Welcome back! I wanted to explain one of my frustrations with using IDE’s, personally, I love using IDE’s when developing my coding projects, but theres something that always bothers me about it. As of right now, the main IDE that I use is PyCharm, but I’ve also experienced the same issue with other IDE’s as well, this issue is energy consumption when not using the IDE.

Whenever I’m developing out a project, I love having the ability of using all of the features that an IDE has to offer, I also love running highlighted sections (line by line) of my code as well, but I run the code on my personal machine, sometimes when I minimize my IDE, I forget that it’s even there, and even when the IDE isn’t running any code, it still takes up a massive amount of energy from my machine.

I’ve talked about this heavily, but I see myself gravitating more towards editors like VS Code, which may not have all of the features of an IDE, but they suck up less energy from my machine than the IDE’s that I typically use, I also highlighted this in an article I wrote a few months ago as well: