You should use whatever makes you productive. Programmers aren’t paid to hand write software, they’re paid for features. Creature comforts as the article calls them , like auto-refactoring and jump to definition, make writing features more efficient. These features are what I need graduate hires to understand and use, not necessarily ‘nuances’ as the article suggests. Once you understand the basics of programming, the language itself becomes less relevant. I’d hire a grad with solid IDE experience over one who is an expert at rust but absolutely insists they only write code in emacs.

By all means, if you’re most effective in emacs then please use it, but in all the places I’ve ever worked, emacs and vim have never been the tool of choice for anything beyond ‘I need this one line changed in this config file’, and there is a reason for that.