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>I don't doubt you consider yourself "productive". However Rich Hickey created Clojure using Emacs and then, using Clojure, he created Datomic. That's certainly something I'd call productive..

So I guess the information below will rock your world and change your editor of preference:

"I developed Clojure in IntelliJ and still do (the Java part)."

http://markmail.org/message/pon2e77mdtkath26

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My only regret is that I could only up vote you +1

IntelliJ is a productive tool, and it is interesting that Rich sometimes uses it. BTW, I do about75% of my Clojure development work in IntelliJ and about 25% with Emacs and nRepl. I find IntelliJ just a little more productive, but both are great working environments.

This is just about my mix for Scala. I have keybindings in Intellij fairly close to what I use in Emacs, and both will update when files are edited. I drop into Emacs when I have heavy editing, need to bounce around multiple buffers, or trying things out in the REPL.

I also work in a number of non-JVM languages in Emacs, and have used it for quite a long time. For JVM work, IntelliJ is, as you say, 'a little more productive'.

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