

However, does the choice of development environment tell you anything about the quality of work a developer can deliver? Absolutely not!Ī great developer could write her code into Notepad and still deliver great stuff.Ĭertainly, there are a lot of things professionals consider when selecting tools for their work. Even if you read them all, it will be impossible to objectively choose a winner. You can easily search the internet and find hundreds of debates about Emacs vs Vim. And having made a choice, we tend to believe that anyone who chooses differently made a mistake. Choice, inevitably, comes after our evaluation of options.

Whether that choice is about taking the red pill or the blue pill, wearing a dress or pants, or using one development environment over another, the choice we make places us in one group of people or another.

And, as all humans, we like taking advantage over our freedom of choice. Regardless of the apparent evidence to the contrary, programmers are humans.
