(Longtime emacs user but have now used sublime text for several years)
Super interesting post, Mike! Not surprising that emacs/vim users tested better since use of those is likely correlated with having programmed for longer or having programmed from earlier in life before some of the other editors even existed. Would love to see it normalized by years programming. Also, insert joke about how using emacs or vim probably led to natural selection weeding out all but the most committed programmers or how the bad vim programmers didn't start their Triplebye interview because they're still trying to figure out how to toggle back to command mode to exit. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
I was surprised to see such a big difference between PyCharms and Sublime. Would love to see a language breakdown for generic text editors like Sublime and Atom and compare python interviewees who used Sublime to python interviewees who used PyCharms. I also wonder if there's some confounding variable since AFAIK there's no free version of PyCharms whereas there are free versions of Sublime and Atom, so an interviewee who has a PyCharms license likely uses it in a school or professional setting.
Super interesting post, Mike! Not surprising that emacs/vim users tested better since use of those is likely correlated with having programmed for longer or having programmed from earlier in life before some of the other editors even existed. Would love to see it normalized by years programming. Also, insert joke about how using emacs or vim probably led to natural selection weeding out all but the most committed programmers or how the bad vim programmers didn't start their Triplebye interview because they're still trying to figure out how to toggle back to command mode to exit. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
I was surprised to see such a big difference between PyCharms and Sublime. Would love to see a language breakdown for generic text editors like Sublime and Atom and compare python interviewees who used Sublime to python interviewees who used PyCharms. I also wonder if there's some confounding variable since AFAIK there's no free version of PyCharms whereas there are free versions of Sublime and Atom, so an interviewee who has a PyCharms license likely uses it in a school or professional setting.