swinkels

As an avid Emacs user, because I like tinkering my development environment. It may not always be productive, but it sure can be fun!

Please do not underestimate the long term benefits of tinkering and discovering new things in the process. For me personally, I noticed that those kind of activities might not seem productive in a short term, but tend to give me important insights (and productivity gains) in other areas of my professional life later on.

With respect to your sad rant, I doubt using or not-using an IDE is the primary (or even secondary) cause for writing unmaintainable code.