Why not just use an IDE if you want IDE features?

After I posted about my Sublime Text 2 git plugin I got one response which I thought was worth responding to. That looks helpful, but I often wonder why not just use an IDE if you want IDE features. Obviously I have a bias here, but I’ll try to be fair to IDEs… An IDE …

Sublime Text 2 git plugin

I wrote a git plugin for Sublime Text 2. I’d decided to try Sublime out for work to see how it compared to TextMate… and thus some degree of git integration was required. Given that it’s been out since January, I was surprised that there wasn’t already a solid git plugin. I did find this …