> My laptop can run a full-featured IDE (IntelliJ) without breaking a sweat and it supports all the languages I need and then some. I've had a quad-core deskto

> My laptop can run a full-featured IDE (IntelliJ) without breaking a sweat and it supports all the languages I need and then some. I've had a quad-core desktop chug under Eclipse (employer required I use it) and still had to fall back to a real editor regularly. > I guess I could go back to trying to hack together an IDE in emacs or vim with a bunch of buggy, half-supported third party plugins that interoperate poorly if at all, but why? Well, mostly people use the well-maintained, integrated, and first-party ones instead. Each to his own, I suppose!