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As a beginner, I find it very comfortable to hit a few click to build an app or fast prototype using xml/layout editor and I don't see that happening in Emacs,

As a beginner, I find it very comfortable to hit a few click to build an app or fast prototype using xml/layout editor and I don't see that happening in Emacs, unless I am wrong. I have recently started using Android Studio and it so quick to give you code suggestion aka code completion. It has literally reduced the amount of time I have to spend writing code by many folds. Is that possible in Emacs? Over the past few months, I have developed an opinion that Emacs is more suited for old school guys who hacked early computers. As someone who started programming with IDEs on modern computer, one isn't really aware of lackings of IDEs, if any.

subsection1h 12y ago
The first editor I used was HomeSite in the mid 1990s. I eventually wanted a more powerful editor. Many programmers recommended Emacs and Vim, but their learning curves seemed too steep. I switched from HomeSite to jEdit in the late 1990s because some jEdit users argued that jEdit had the power of Emacs but without the steep learning curve. I used jEdit for a few years, but eventually I needed to program in a language for which there wasn't a good jEdit plugin available. That's when I switched to Emacs. It took me several full days to make the switch, much shorter than I expected it would, but I was far more experienced at that point than I was when I first heard of Emacs. I wish I had switched to Emacs sooner, mostly because of Org mode, which has changed my life. Even if I were to start using an IDE because of a job requirement or whatever, I would still use Emacs for knowledge management. FYI, I don't code in Java, and many people who do prefer IDEs, even some Emacs users.