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> Integrated debugging (with edit+continue while debugging)

That's the main reason to use an IDE, in my mind, along with the ability to display the call sites of a function.

> integrated version control interface,

Never noticed any advantage compared to a shell with git or git-svn, personally.

> integrated build system

Depends what you mean by that. What's precious is the ability to detect errors before doing a build or testing anything. "Integrated build systems" in general I find often fall flat on their face when something outside of the IDE touches the files.



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