[dman]

I agree this things like typing speed and a good editor should not matter but in reality I think it does. I think the state of programming flow is very hard to get into, and very easy to fall out of. In fact the easiest way I find myself getting out of state of flow is if I find myself doing something mundane. Anything that allows you to do more while you are in the flow, or lessens the chance of breaking out of it is valuable in my opinion. Will share an anecdote here - before I started using clang-format for formatting my code, I expected that adopting it would merely save me the time I spent formatting. On the contrary what happened was that it has almost completely changed the way I write code when I am in flow since I now no longer have to worry about having to make it look good. In retrospect I now find that in the past I would often spend crucial parts of my programming flow doing mechanical indentation of code and doing such a mechanical activity was often a ripe target for me to fall out of flow.

My typing speed and accuracy are both pretty low, when and if I correct that, I hope to have a similar efficiency gain as I did when I adopted clang-format since I won't be falling out of flow for mundane things like typos. Not every moment spent programming is equal, and in my humble opinion it really helps to invest in making your "special moments" more productive.