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In my experience this is the same for people who use a low level text editor as an IDE.

The code that comes out of developers that use IDEs is normalized in a way that makes it very easy to change. Sure, if your big enough you can spend all your time inventing linting rules and creating templates to generate scaffolding and tests.

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Just use a formatter already and get over linter bikeshedding.

I honestly don't understand how people are still bickering over style guides in modern programming. Autoformatters exist in every major language. Git hooks exist. Company style guides exist. Pick one, and then it's never an issue what editor people are using, it's bizarre that this bikeshed still exists.

In all my years of using emacs I have not once been called out on formatting. In my last job the bastion of PEP-8 was a vim user. If you're talking about actual low level text editors like nano or notepad.exe, then sure, but vim and emacs are proper tools.

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