The important thing is to bet on a safe horse 
I was lucky so that I initially used emacs and then swapped to vim. I learned these editors 15-20 years ago and the good thing is: They haven’t changed.
My shell hasn’t changed, man pages haven’t changed, find, grep, sed haven’t changed. Which means I spent some time learning things and I can still use them as it was 20 years ago.
A unix like environment is my IDE and it hasn’t changed and I think that in 10 years time I can still use the same tools. So well spent time learning.
During this time lots of IDEs and text editors have gone by but they never last. I can’t see VSCode or Atom live for long either. Same thing with chat environments I guess. The only one left from 25 years ago is IRC. Gone are all the other hyped one in between.
