It's like saying "What modern olympic gold medal runners prefer Adidas shoes over Nike?", with the implication that Adidas shoes are inferior in some way.
They are olympians, you're not. Use whatever shoes you want to use.
Tooling does matter, but what "legendary programmers" tooling looks like doesn't outside of a professional curiosity.
Legendary programmers don’t become legendary because of their text editors but because of the code that they write.
Linus Torvalds has used a janky version of micro Emacs that he picked up as a university student in Finland.[1] Will it make you a better programmer if you switch to his editor? No. Just use whatever you are comfortable with, like he has. He has used this editor because he got used to its peculiar keybindings. He rather worked on the kernel than to learn new keybindings.
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Honest question: what’s the point of this question? what does it matter?
If “legendary programmers” all chiseled bits into a disk with a scalpel would that make it a good idea?
Use whatever makes you comfortable and allow others to do the same. Don’t emulate or even care about “legendary programmers” tooling.
Let me respectfully disagree. Tooling is super important in any trade but in programming it can make be multiplier (all other things being equal).
It's like saying "What modern olympic gold medal runners prefer Adidas shoes over Nike?", with the implication that Adidas shoes are inferior in some way.
They are olympians, you're not. Use whatever shoes you want to use.
Tooling does matter, but what "legendary programmers" tooling looks like doesn't outside of a professional curiosity.
if you don't learn from the best, how do you improve?
Legendary programmers don’t become legendary because of their text editors but because of the code that they write.
Linus Torvalds has used a janky version of micro Emacs that he picked up as a university student in Finland.[1] Will it make you a better programmer if you switch to his editor? No. Just use whatever you are comfortable with, like he has. He has used this editor because he got used to its peculiar keybindings. He rather worked on the kernel than to learn new keybindings.
[1] https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs
If IT would actually learn from the past it wouldn't be a fashion driven industry.