> Multiple editors would have been an issue for me a few years ago, but JetBrains has changed that (for the set of languages I use, anyway). I can use the same IDE for a bunch of different ecosystems.
Exactly. Now, imagine being able to use that same IDE for everything JetBrains supports, and to read man pages, and to read info pages, and to read & compose email, and to list the processes running on your computer, and to manage files in directories, and to emulate a terminal, and to browse the web, and to play NetHack, and to use IRC, and to manage git repos, and to do every other thing you want. And all the keybindings remain consistent throughout all of those modes. And you can easily schlep data back & forth between them. And it's extensible in a relatively sane language (sane compared to Java, JavaScript, C, C++ and Python, anyway).
That's why we use emacs. That's why it's very difficult to understand why anyone else doesn't use emacs.
> Do you still have low resource requirements if using things like linting, hinting, and full graphical debugging?
Emacs can be pretty amazingly fast even with all of that running. There are advantages to having first been written back when computers were small.
Exactly. Now, imagine being able to use that same IDE for everything JetBrains supports, and to read man pages, and to read info pages, and to read & compose email, and to list the processes running on your computer, and to manage files in directories, and to emulate a terminal, and to browse the web, and to play NetHack, and to use IRC, and to manage git repos, and to do every other thing you want. And all the keybindings remain consistent throughout all of those modes. And you can easily schlep data back & forth between them. And it's extensible in a relatively sane language (sane compared to Java, JavaScript, C, C++ and Python, anyway).
That's why we use emacs. That's why it's very difficult to understand why anyone else doesn't use emacs.
> Do you still have low resource requirements if using things like linting, hinting, and full graphical debugging?
Emacs can be pretty amazingly fast even with all of that running. There are advantages to having first been written back when computers were small.