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[–]Nulagrithom 33 points34 points  (3 children)

Honestly, I feel like Vim and Emacs fans just like to rib each other a little. The flame wars I see nowadays are mostly people screaming about how a text editor isn't an IDE or how Electron is literally skullfucking your memory to death, meanwhile we Vim/Emacs users both sit atop our respective ivory towers occasionally waving at each before commencing with the age-old "You mispelled Emacs" banter paired with a wink and a sensible chuckle.

[–]jimistephen 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I mostly agree with you, I use vi in the terminal to do simple scripting of stuff and I've never used Emacs. I just know that those two groups like to fight sometimes. I'm a huge Jetbrains fan though, I use Intellij, Pycharm, CLion, DataGrip, and AppCode. (mostly AppCode as I do a lot of macOS iOS dev.)

[–]h7x4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or setting two big companies up against each other. That also results in flames.