“Revenge of the Coders”

Posted on September 27th, 2003 by Sacha Chua

There is a movement among programmers away from sluggish,
feature-heavy IDEs and toward flexible code editors as
enterprises focus intensely on productivity. The rationale
behind this transition is developers’ desire to not be locked …
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0926f.html#item14

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