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I can't read the article as I'm getting a security warning. But I've always felt really awkward using an IDE like VS or Eclipse. Even as a beginner when I had n

I can't read the article as I'm getting a security warning. But I've always felt really awkward using an IDE like VS or Eclipse. Even as a beginner when I had no experience of using anything else I thought it was a bit, uncomfortable pointing and clicking and having numerous menu options in my face all the time. So when I got introduced to Emacs by a former colleague I started out with a great amount of scepticism, I mean why should Emacs be so great when nothing else I had tried up until that point hadn't. (I went through VS, Eclipse, Sublime, Atom and 15 minutes of Spacemacs in advance). And at first I wasn't impressed, the concept of doing 99.9% of everything using only the keyboard was completely foreign to me. But the more I got used to it, and all basic key bindings, the more I grew to love Emacs. Today, some three years later I can't even imagine myself developing using something else. I know one can set up other IDEs to get basically the same functionality. But yeah, Emacs comes with the functionality built in so why should I go through all the hassle of setting up the key bindings in VS?

mehrdadn 8y ago
It sounds like you used VS as a text editor rather than as an IDE (because you only needed the former, especially as a beginner). It's a little bit like using your car to drive across the block. It's definitely less comfortable than just walking, but it doesn't mean you'll have an easier time if you just try to walk everywhere.
- jgtrosh 8y ago
  Emacs is not to VS what walking is to driving. It's more like a programmable car instead of a Microsoft™ Drive Studio. I don't think there's a good real life comparison.
lloeki 8y ago
> an IDE like VS or Eclipse It is at best ambiguous in your comment whether this is intentional or not but the article is about VSCode (the text editor), not VS (the IDE).

mehrdadn 8y ago

It sounds like you used VS as a text editor rather than as an IDE (because you only needed the former, especially as a beginner). It's a little bit like using your car to drive across the block. It's definitely less comfortable than just walking, but it doesn't mean you'll have an easier time if you just try to walk everywhere.

jgtrosh 8y ago
Emacs is not to VS what walking is to driving. It's more like a programmable car instead of a Microsoft™ Drive Studio. I don't think there's a good real life comparison.

lloeki 8y ago

> an IDE like VS or Eclipse It is at best ambiguous in your comment whether this is intentional or not but the article is about VSCode (the text editor), not VS (the IDE).