> So for me the question is why there are still people that enjoy working as if their computers are using a 25 year old developer experience. Existing response

> So for me the question is why there are still people that enjoy working as if their computers are using a 25 year old developer experience. Existing responses already covered a lot of things, but the simple answer is: most of us don't. The state of these editors and tools 25 years ago, while largely the same, is still very different: there are still major improvements, many new packages, etc. Could I work on a 25-year-old system? Sure, and it'd be largely the same, but it'd be pretty uncomfortable; those subtleties matter a great deal. ;) Especially in my editors (both Emacs and Vim), and on the command line (both tools and even readline).