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Comment by markus_zhang

I found myself lack of energy and time stepping into my 40s and vowed never to waste time “learning” cool editors such as Vim and Emacs.

VSCode is now my one stop editor of choice on Linux and VS on Windows. I also use Jetbrain editors for work.

I’m done. For people like me, who write SQL and Python for data pipelines, the Jetbrain IDEs are no-brainers. We don’t actually get the time or energy to do a lot of side projects so it doesn’t make sense to learn advanced editors such as Vim and Emacs: 1) These two need a lot of muscle memory just to start using it, but we don’t use it on a daily basis, 2) I’m not smart enough to write code as if I’m writing this reply so fluent coding experience without mouse isn’t useful for me ——- I have to stop and think hard every few minutes anyway.

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