@apropos @ZeroSum06

> his 'controversial' practice of using simple editors

I may be dragging this afield (the main topic is really good shit), but you see this with literally every top-tier coder, the people that create the stuff that other people spend years studying: really simple editor, really basic feature set. Not chugging fluoridated text editors is only controversial in feature-factories. Ken Thompson and Brian Kernighan use sam, Arthur Whitney switched from notepad.exe to a basic editor he wrote himself, Chuck Moore used a simple screen-based editor he wrote for DOS, Dennis Ritchie used acme, Rob Pike uses acme, Linus Torvalds uses a personal fork of uemacs (minimal emacs with no Lisp runtime).

> >I was always pausing and waiting while coding

This is interesting.