Okay, this meme has been floating around and I really dislike it. I'm not a big fan of gatekeeping programming based on what editor/tools someone uses. I care about what code actually does and couldn't care less about what tool was used to write it. Use whatever works for you.
Some of the best programmers I've met use rando editors like Sam/Acme and Slickedit. Some of the other best programmers I've met use Visual Studio or Xcode. The editor has little to do with why they're great programmers.
@yiningkarlli this. eg I could never understood vim, but I’ve seen some very productive people use it. Good for them! I’ve also seen some folks who spent all their time explaining how vim allows them to be very good/fast, except they were not good and/or never got anything done.
@aras@yiningkarlli You probably don't want to maintain the toolchain, so for most professional cases, it doesn't make sense to use something different than what your team is using.
@aras@yiningkarlli I once decided to give vim a chance (for writing C++ apps) and it was actually very easy and fast to learn and be productive with. It even has autocomplete. But I wouldn't trade Visual Studio or similar IDE for it.
@aras I don't mind (and sometimes participate in) some good-natured gentle ribbing between pals about editors and stuff, and there's some good very funny stuff out there about pretty much any editor one can think of. But then there's people who are super serious about it and to me it's just like ???? how do they have the spare brain capacity to think about this all day; it takes all of the brain capacity I have to think about the actual code I'm supposed to be writing.
@aras@yiningkarlli a lot of it depends on a person and affinity to certain UX paradigms. For instance, I am primarily a mouse user, I hate shortcuts - and cannot learn key combos. I can force myself to do it, but it causes me discomfort and feeling "slow". No matter which software, tried for many years.
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