Interesting perspective. I'm not a professional coder but I do use emacs for writing code and when I'm using a language like C# or Fortran that has a make-run-

Interesting perspective. I'm not a professional coder but I do use emacs for writing code and when I'm using a language like C# or Fortran that has a make-run-debug cycle, I just run $ M-x compile which you can bind to any convenient hotkey combo and which you can customize to invoke any build system you like. Results of the compilation go into emacs as a separate buffer. Is that insufficient for your workflow? Not sure what else would be needed except perhaps stepping through code with a debugger and on this point I'll agree that Linux and emacs suck at debugger support compared to, say, the Visual Studio debugger or perhaps Olly which I've never used. As for org, I agree that it isn't good for collaboration except with other emacs users as far as Todo lists and such, however if you generate PDF reports via latex I find org is a better more sane way for that.