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[AI summary] A veteran programmer shares their deep dive into why Emacs is superior to modern IDEs and competing text editors like Vim, highlighting its extensibility, powerful keyboard shortcuts, and seamless integration with development tools.
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| | takeonrules.com

About 15 or so years ago, I was changing jobs. I was leaving the walled garden of an Integrated Development Environment (IDE ?) for a proprietary language that deployed to an IBM System iSeries (AS/400 ?) . (Sidenote: We wrote in Report Program Generator programming language from IBM (IBM RPG ?) and Cool Plex, which looked a lot of meta-code and what I now know to be RDF Triples ) At my new job, I was writing web-facing applications using open source technology and deploying to Linux.
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| | henrikwarne.com

For seven years I coded in C++ using Emacs. Four years ago, when I changed jobs, I switched to Java development using IntelliJ IDEA. Without a doubt, I am much more productive writing code in IntelliJ IDEA compared to using Emacs. Here's why: Navigation Coding is really something like 80% navigation, and only 20% actual...
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| | dougseven.com

Today I am at re:Invent 2022 in Las Vegas, NV. I am spending my days talking to AWS customers about Amazon CodeWhisperer - a new developer productivity service that will accelerate application development by providing automatic code recommendations based on the code and comments in your IDE. For developers, Amazon CodeWhisperer is an IDE extension...
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