I do most of my stuff inside Emacs, but I wouldn't say that makes me a superior engineer to someone who uses a suite of JetBrains IDEs. In fact, for every benef

I do most of my stuff inside Emacs, but I wouldn't say that makes me a superior engineer to someone who uses a suite of JetBrains IDEs. In fact, for every benefit I gain from working in emacs and a terminal, there are plenty of trade-offs in terms of the amount of convenience I lose. I could recreate much of this with my emacs config, but that's an investment of my own time that isn't being spent on the actual project I want to work on. So one day I'll get around to it when I feel like it's worth moving that work into my emacs environment. But until then, I'm quite happy to fire up GoLand or IntelliJ and get a complete end-to-end integration between the language and the editor, without needing to configure anything. I'm not sure the developer who uses an IDE is worse off than someone who can wrangle a terminal and minimal editor. If anything, it's just one choice of cognitive burden over another. Nothing better or worse.