Vim vs. emacs – minus the religion

Except Vim can also execute code in a subprocess and print the output, it can also do debugging via GDB or similar, and it can do things like lint your code and display the results every time you save.

Thing is, there aren't as many people doing that in vim so it's harder to find plugins and writing vim plugins is a pain. But I use it every day for some pretty advanced IDE-level stuff and it works great.

I'm not saying Emacs isn't great. To be honest I don't know it well enough to say. But I do know Vim is more capable than this article implies.