Ask HN: Is building an application dependent on an IDE a thing?

I was speaking to a colleague the other day about an issue he encountered working on an app. It took me a while to understand that the issue he was talking about had nothing to do with the application but with the IDE he was using. I asked him to just switch to a different IDE and he mentioned he can't compile the app without the IDE.

I've been in web development for close to 10 years and this is my first encounter with such a ridiculous notion. Every job I've had I've been able to choose my IDE of choice for working on the business app. I've never come across an application that was dependent on running on a specific IDE to build.

How common is this? Have I just been lucky in jobs that don't care what you develop in? Why would a company build an application that their engineers need to utilize a specific IDE in order to build their company?

NOTE: My colleague and I work on different projects/teams. I'm new to this job and this is the first time I'm hearing about such woes.

I started my career with emacs, then VIM, then sublime (with VIM bindings), then atom (with VIM bindings) and now I'm using VSCode (with VIM bindings), and planning on just going back to plain VIM. [on Linux or OSX]