[jll29]

They didn't ask the heretic question of "other editors used" (in parallel, not "before"), but I'm going to tell you the answer anyhow:

I use XEmacs 21.4 and Sublime 3.2.2 (and sometimes editors that come with various IDEs). I also regularly use vi when logged in as 'root', as it's an established sysadmin best practice not to run third-party software as super user.

Sublime is more beautiful but I trust Emacs more (Sublime still has the odd bug) and I master Emacs commands fairly well by now (used since 1993).

[bitwize]

I answered the survey, but I've begun the process of moving away from Emacs, and adopting what is considered the standard toolkit for a programmer in my position. And for enterprise JavaScript development, the standard editor is Visual Studio Code.

The reason why is because using anything else creates unnecessary friction between me and the rest of the team. This applies to other tools as well; for example, the default way to bench-test a running web service is to "use Postman". I could use curl, and that would be easier for me, especially from a scripting standpoint, but everybody else's vocabulary is in terms of Postman, so I'm forcing myself to use that.

[morelisp]

I gave the parallel answers anyway, but weird none of my parallel editors were on there (let alone previous, which even I had to look up the name of to remember). No Xcode, no Visual Studio - both extremely common.

Definitely a "web kids" survey.