[modernerd]

“IDEs are for beginners” and “IDEs are not for serious programmers” and “Vim/Emacs make you superhuman” are myths we should not perpetuate as programmers.

I like Vim/Emacs, but they succeed in making programmers feel like magical wizards more than they succeed in making them super human.

I've also paired with vim/Emacs users who are fast at manipulating text, but terrible at all the things you can do in a couple of seconds with an IDE (rename a file/function/class/parameter and have all references update, jump to a failing test, jump to a definition of library code that isn't stored under the working directory path, structural search and replace[1], extract JSX code from the render method to create a new component etc. etc.).

For many, it's easier to add vim emulation to an IDE than it is to add the IDE features they care about to vim/Emacs. You can still be a passionate, professional, productive developer and use an IDE.

[1]: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/webstorm/structural-search-an...