I’ve spent a good chunk of my career using emacs as my primary means of generating code. I’d hop over to other platforms (Visual Studio, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA) for debugging or an occasional search for something.

I’ve been doing a lot of C# work in the most recent project I was software lead on and I’m finding myself shifting over to Visual Studio for the speed with which it allows work to progress.

I’m expecting to play with Idea and Eclipse a bit more in the near future as I am playing with Javascript, Java and Kotlin on the side at the moment.

It does seem that the ‘hard’ documentation is less complete or available these days than it used to be. I’m guessing that this is a direct result of the rise of very capable code completion and related helper tools.