I'm not a C/C++ developer, but I spend most of my time in Emacs. Most of my development time is spent in Python, and Emacs serves as an excellent IDE for the la

I'm not a C/C++ developer, but I spend most of my time in Emacs. Most of my development time is spent in Python, and Emacs serves as an excellent IDE for the language. However, that in itself is not my reason for preferring Emacs. It's also my markdown editor, often my file manager, my PDF viewer, my image viewer, my git interface, IRC client, email client... I could go on, but I'll stop there. Emacs is not and has never been an IDE, it's a highly versatile and extensible text-editor. You can't compare apples and oranges.