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The industry that still argues about which text editor from the 1970s is the best tool to code in has a problem with rapid paradigm shifts?

I'm shocked.




The people commenting here are not those people for the most part.


The industry that still argues about which text editor from the 1970s is the best tool to code in has a problem with rapid paradigm shifts?

I use emacs and avoid IDEs.

That said, I have no interest in the emacs vs. vi debate. I don't care what tools you use, as long as you don't do things in a way that force me to use specific tools (e.g. enterprise environments that becomes IDE-dependent).

As for me, I don't like mindless churn. This industry desperately needs to improve. It's running at about 5% (if that) of its real potential. But the constant fire drilling that comes with moving from one well-sold crappy technology to another well-sold crappy technology is really irritating, and it's part of why so many good programmers tend to move up into management.




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