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johnisgood 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: One year after switching from Java to Go

Let me know when you can work on a medium-sized Java codebase in Emacs or Vim smoothly.

codr7 4 months ago [–]

I more or less live in Emacs, but I wouldn't use it for drawing pictures or writing SmallTalk either. The right tool for the job.

johnisgood 4 months ago | [–]

I can use Emacs and Vim for pretty much everything, definitely not Java or JVM-like languages.

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