But seriously, this is almost entirely bullshit. I've used IDEs for a long time, and they just don't encourage the problems you're describing here. Bad develope

But seriously, this is almost entirely bullshit. I've used IDEs for a long time, and they just don't encourage the problems you're describing here. Bad developers do, and that's totally independent of your language or your editor. Maybe you don't have to work on million line projects but lots of people do, and maybe, just maybe, it's not their fault and maybe, just maybe, there are totally valid reasons that their projects are like that. It is my opinion that mere editor "users" (because seriously folks, many of you are the kind of people who can't get off your high horse) never understand that, and refuse to accept that perhaps other people might like different tools or work in different scenarios than they do. And yes, I used Emacs for 8 years. You couldn't pay me enough to go back.