Saying Stallman isn't qualified to steer major projects because he isn't familiar with IDEs is a pretty weird point to make. Emacs is a far more advanced enviro

Saying Stallman isn't qualified to steer major projects because he isn't familiar with IDEs is a pretty weird point to make. Emacs is a far more advanced environment than any IDE I have used, and often the so-called "features" of IDEs are to deal with self-created problems: Java/C# build tooling in IDEs, for example, is there to deal with the fact that the build processes for these languages is massively overcomplicated. I can't speak for Stallman, but I am confident that I'm accurately representing the opinions of a lot of Emacs users when I say that IDEs provide a leaky abstraction over systemic design problems rather than solving them.