My road to Emacs was similar to the author's. When I was learning programming everyone was using IDEs. It seemed like they were inseparable from the programming

My road to Emacs was similar to the author's. When I was learning programming everyone was using IDEs. It seemed like they were inseparable from the programming language. I remember thinking I couldn't learn C++ because I didn't have a C++ IDE. After my second or third language I started to think this was ridiculous. It's all just text! And these built in text editors are terrible! It took the best part of a decade for everyone else to realise and move to VSCode, a vastly inferior editor.