Good point. They’re all just tools and patterns. The actual tools used _could_ save some time, but experience plus the capacity to reason about software is a bigger deal.

The article just made me think of some devs that I’ve worked with that were obsessed with particular tooling (insert comment about a hammer and everything being a nail).

I do keep an eye on emacs. It turned into mainly my org-mode editor, but the v29 article that hit the HN front page recently has me curious about trying more dev work with it.