2 points: > This comment is ridiculous. Yes. However, I would point out that eventually this productivity thing matters i.e. more productive developers will b

2 points: > This comment is ridiculous. Yes. However, I would point out that eventually this productivity thing matters i.e. more productive developers will be able to effect more change in the world faster than less productive developers. While I'm all for sharing knowledge, if my competition is putting creative effort into hobbling themselves, then I say leave them to it. > I use vim because it's the fastest thing I've ever used by a very wide margin. I used to think this, but then I paired with someone who was eye-wateringly fast with TextMate (that person has since converted to using vim full-time). Rather than speed, for me at least, its always been about fluency (how little cognitive load is there between thinking and the code appearing). I happen to be a lot faster than most IDE clowns I happen to be working with, but I believe that's a happy side-effect.