> I’m more productive in it than with “modern” tools.
Are you objectively more productive, or do you perceive yourself to be more productive?
I was an Emacs diehard for nearly two decades. Then I got introduced to CLion. In retrospect, Emacs was an inferior tool.
While it's certainly true that Emacs can be configured and extended to do all sorts of interesting things, I do suspect many of its users are deluding themselves when it comes to the sheer breadth and depth of functionality offered by a modern IDE. It also doesn't help that its maintainers are living several decades in the past, and haven't kept up with what the "competition" are doing.
I'm certainly not implying that Emacs is a poor editor. Very few IDEs have text editing capabilities on par with that. But its integration with other tools doesn't hold a candle to today's IDEs.
Are you objectively more productive, or do you perceive yourself to be more productive?
I was an Emacs diehard for nearly two decades. Then I got introduced to CLion. In retrospect, Emacs was an inferior tool.
While it's certainly true that Emacs can be configured and extended to do all sorts of interesting things, I do suspect many of its users are deluding themselves when it comes to the sheer breadth and depth of functionality offered by a modern IDE. It also doesn't help that its maintainers are living several decades in the past, and haven't kept up with what the "competition" are doing.
I'm certainly not implying that Emacs is a poor editor. Very few IDEs have text editing capabilities on par with that. But its integration with other tools doesn't hold a candle to today's IDEs.