No! No, no, no, no, no. The best programmers use whatever they use. You are making the same mistake as the guy you're replying to. There is no one best way. We need to get over this mentality as a community. I don't mean to pick on you, as this was clearly just an off-the-cuff comment, but this kind of dialogue is simply worthless. I agree that the grandparent poster seems pretty clueless about vim and its ilk, but an equal and opposite reaction that's just as subjective and baseless will get us nowhere.

> The best programmers use either Emacs or vim.

Do you really think that? I can assure you that you're wrong: many world-class programmers use editors other than Emacs or vim.

There are great programmers who use Microsoft Visual Studio, Komodo IDE, Sublime Text 2, and many dozens of different editors.

> The best programmers use either Emacs or vim.

No, only the programmers that you know. One thing that makes a programmer great is that they will always pick the best tool for the job, not the tool that they are used to.

The point here is not that Eclipse or XCode is better than vim, it's that no matter how productive you are writing Java or Objective C with vim, you will be more productive using Eclipse or XCode.

The most beautiful women use skirts.