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Re:Ask HN: Help, my boss wants to us to use laptops from 201... by vips7L on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @08:50AM (#27687838)
You’re insane to recommend emacs and vim to beginners. You’re right that you dont need IntelliJ, but vi and emacs for complete beginners seems a bit stretched.

The better recommendation would be VsCode or Sublime using the eclipse language server.

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Re:Ask HN: Help, my boss wants to us to use laptops from 201... by sralbert on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @09:41AM (#27688391)
I'm not sure about emacs, but I don't think there is anything wrong with teaching vim to new programmers. I learned it along with Java in my first programming course. I think it should be presented as an option along with other editors, though.
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