What about it? I haven't found an IDE which is actually less work than doing the work myself, or one with an editor I can tolerate. And if you've never compiled anything yourself or used a makefile, most of the options in one will never make sense to you.

Using an IDE also means you'll probably be unable to work with anyone's code but your own unless you can convince them to use the same IDE as you.

Using an IDE usually multiplies the work in the long run, when you must keep updating and changing all your already-existing projects to keep up with changing versions of the products you built them with. Commercial products are particularly bad, since you're pretty much demanding that everyone you send your code to buys that commercial product. Sometimes -- often -- IDE's break compatibility with themselves and you must start over from scratch. Eventually, I decided enough was enough, ripped all the IDE junk out of my projects, and spent 5 minutes writing my own simple makefiles. Problem solved.

And the data-dump debugger gives you most of what people really want in an IDE without the baggage.