The "author" is actually very familiar with IDEs and have used them for many years. This was a story about Zig, and the reasons I would characterize IDE's as bloated or why I simply don't like them very much would require a whole story onto itself. Forunately I already wrote that story 😉: https://erik-engheim.medium.com/why-i-dont-like-ides-6654adb179cb