Not sure if my answer would be better that those of Google search.
I could have a flexible, programmable good-enough DE for C/C++ with make, emacs+cedet+cc-mode on my netbook with a crappy AMD x86-64 CPU and 1.5Gb of available RAM. It works fine for navigating over my own code, when I know what I am doing and why.
I would not explain the wonders of emacs+slime+cmucl or emacs+cider+clojure-mode here. Just one hint: everything works on a [remote] text terminal via ssh,tmux,etc. Google does it better.
Eclipse, while it could start without any progect in a minute or so, is unusable for anything but menu navigation.
Moreover, there are people around who still believe that make and command line tools are still good enough.
My bet is that very complex software, like nginx or postgresql has been written in vi or emacs.
I could have a flexible, programmable good-enough DE for C/C++ with make, emacs+cedet+cc-mode on my netbook with a crappy AMD x86-64 CPU and 1.5Gb of available RAM. It works fine for navigating over my own code, when I know what I am doing and why.
I would not explain the wonders of emacs+slime+cmucl or emacs+cider+clojure-mode here. Just one hint: everything works on a [remote] text terminal via ssh,tmux,etc. Google does it better.
Eclipse, while it could start without any progect in a minute or so, is unusable for anything but menu navigation.
Moreover, there are people around who still believe that make and command line tools are still good enough.
My bet is that very complex software, like nginx or postgresql has been written in vi or emacs.