Most of the shortcuts just make sense and it’s very keyboard friendly. Although there is a rich collection of plugins available in the internal marketplace, you really don’t need that many to be quick after a fresh install. Using an IDE, everything is preconfigured to just work as is out of the box. It contains all the necessary tooling, highlighting, syntax check and indexing functionality needed for a hassle-free development process. It is an integrated development environment. With XDebug you have everything laid out in front of you, and in case of PHPStorm with a comfortable search functionality and neat visuals to speed up even the dreaded and completely undesired moments of bug-finding. No more echo-ing the variables, and guessing values. It achieves that by running as a PHP extension, which needs to be configured, but gets lots of information regarding the running process and all its data, which is crucial in confusing debugging scenarios. The quote above is from the official website, which in other words says that XDebug helps reduce the number of bugs and ease the process of finding them.
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