[mettamage]

This is what I'm discovering as well. For the past month I've been learning node.js, express.js and everything that comes with it.

I'm an (inefficient) vim user. I learned vim because I didn't want to ssh into a terminal and type nano. For this purpose learning an editor that is shipped with every (?) unix-system is amazing. I don't know if emacs is also shipped with every unix-system, but learning the basics for the sake of configuring servers is quite handy. I also loved Sublime Text, so I combined using vim and Sublime Text as my main editor.

However, when learning node and writing good javascript I noticed that my debug cycle was very slow. It was so slow that I noticed that I was debugging 80% of the time and writing code about 5 to 10, and thinking about code 10 to 15. So in my case getting a good debugger was a lot more important than having an editor with which I can whizz through text.

So for node.js I switched to Visual Studio Code.