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by girzel 3801 days ago
It's also worth noting that there's a lot of work going into Emacs right now to give it better IDE-like features -- finding definitions reliably, refactoring, all that stuff. They're working on a more generalized framework for supporting this stuff, and I'd expect Emacs to get significantly more competitive (with traditional IDEs) within the next year or two.