How IDEs and text editors cause developers pain

How IDEs and text editors cause developers pain

Software engineers mostly build software solutions using tools known as IDE and/or text editors, these tools are invaluable when it comes to speeding up development and reducing room for error. In the same vein, there are times when these tools can cause developers a lot of grief.

These tools known as IDEs and text editors are known to prompt software engineers when the code being written seems to have bugs, the prompts given by these tools are instrumental in fixing problems, some IDEs go as far as making sure the software solution doesn't build if the bugs aren't fixed; while that is great, there are times when it can be nightmarish.

There are a lot of situations when developers write good code and the text editor/IDE prompts the software engineer with information that the code is filled with bugs, it can be so deceiving that it costs developers hours in debugging only to find out that the tool is wrong. It's as a result of this that developers restart their tools a lot. It seems turning things off and on is going to remain an effective solution to a lot of tech problems for a while.

I believe that restarting one's tools should be among the first debugging actions a developer should carry out, newbie developers especially are the biggest victims of false reports from IDEs and text editors. As a result of the fact that they're green behind the ears they tend to take reports from their tools seriously and it can really frustrate their growth when they're using code-along videos and aren't getting the same results as the tutor. All in all, I believe our developer tools have quite a bit of room for improvement so as to improve development experience particularly for junior developers.