I’m on the Emacs side of things. Took me a while… but I’m glad I did go all in on Emacs.
My current line of though is that every programmer should master at least one good programming text editor (not a full featured IDE like IntelliJ but one pure text editor like Emacs/Vim/Kate/Notepad++/Etc). This is good skill for being productive. You should be really good at shortcuts, text search/replace/count/selection/etc.
Then, if you feel the need, go to an IDE. Not before dealing with a pure “text buffer” oriented text editor.
Just a tip: do not try to learn a new language while learning Emacs… I tried to learn Erlang and Emacs together (there were no Eclipses/IntelliJs at the time for Erlang) coming from a Java OO world with all the tools that Java provides… Boy that was a baaaaaad decision… but after a while (could have been a shorter while…) I feel comfortable with Emacs. The typing hands position thing truly makes sense when you think about it…
