Is it mandatory to code in Java in an IDE?

Question

Java

Or maybe an editor, like VSC or ST?

Answer 1

No, not necessarily. An editor like Notepad or vi is enough.

Answer 2

Of course not! I started programming in mymacs (a heavily stripped-down port of emacs from 1995). There was nothing in it, except for brackets, there was no Internet either. There was also no Java. Then came Linux and the "normal" emacs. But there was no list of functions, then the ctags utility appeared. Then a cool IDE code wariot with syntax highlighting, templates and other crap, speeding up the development process by an order of magnitude. Then came Java, and again emacs. And so the ibm company posted eclipse on the harsh dial-up Internet, which I downloaded for about a week. Refactoring appeared, Transition through classes, functions, automatic documentation, substitution of functions and methods, etc.
And of course I can go back to the monochrome green monitor, the old editor, the command line with make. But, damn it, why the hell are these 30 years of evolution?!

Answer 3

No. Even a notepad is enough.

Answer 4

No, not necessarily