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I went from RubyMine to emacs, for working with rails / coffeescript projects. Having an editor I could trivially extend was key; M-x eval-region (I have it bound to a shortcut) dramatically lowers the barrier to altering functionality.

I'll only use an IDE for languages that rely heavily on code completion, and have good support for it through static typing and libraries that include symbol tables. In practice, that means Java and C#.




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