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I have been coding for 36 years and currently do Swift/XCode. Used plain text editors back in 83/84 time frame but have using some kind of IDE since Turbo Pasca
by coldcode 9y ago
I have been coding for 36 years and currently do Swift/XCode. Used plain text editors back in 83/84 time frame but have using some kind of IDE since Turbo Pascal 1.0 and have zero desire to use either vim or emacs. I wouldn't hold a lot to the idea that old programmers use them more than young. People should use whatever they feel makes them more productive.
- jhgb 9y agoBut (Gnu) Emacs is not a plain text editor. It can edit formatted texts, embed pictures and widgets etc. While XCode's editor, even if I haven't seen it in practice, most probably actually is. So it can't be the "plain text editor" aspect that is the differentiator in favor of XCode here.