[agumonkey]

until very recently emacs was the only editor that felt "smart". visual studio didn't really recognized grammar the same way. emacs semi parsing meant that TAB was a way to syntax check my code on the fly (50% of why I kept using emacs in college)

[oblio]

Eclipse has had incremental Java compilation since at least 2007. That's 12 years.

[agumonkey]

Yeah but eclipse had its share of wat. That made everything nice it brought insufferable.