IDEs come and go, Emacs stays. Turbo Pascal (wayyy back) was quite impressive (then), Visual Age for Java much more so some fifteen years later. IntelliJ is a

IDEs come and go, Emacs stays. Turbo Pascal (wayyy back) was quite impressive (then), Visual Age for Java much more so some fifteen years later. IntelliJ is alright (prefer it over Eclipse, which somehow managed to lose the smart features of its predecessor). Haven't tried VS Code yet, but from the videos I've seen, it seems quite handy. I stick with Emacs for two reasons: familiarity and SLIME (the next best thing to a LISP Machine ;-}