[joel_perl_prog]

I've often wondered about that. For me, the development environment is extremely minimalistic, by some types of standards. Linux itself, including tools like ack + vim. I use various vim tricks, not up to the point of it being my de-facto OS (as is possible to do!).

From what I can observe, I am generally faster than my co-workers. But it could be possible that with a great IDE, I could be faster yet. I don't feel any tug to leave, but could just mean I'm ignorant of that truly better way.