It might be possible to do anything with a chisel that you can do with a CNC machine, but that doesn't in any way mean either choice is as reasonable as the other.

I just can't see a genuine reason to not use a real IDE and debugger. You can even fall back on the same tools you had before with them! Using a debugger doesn't mean you can't also use print statements, but if I could only have one I'd pick the debugger every time.