Comment by PaulRobinson

I flip flop on this a bit.

Part of me thinks that in 2026 (and onwards), I should make the most of the M4 processor I have in my hands, the GPUs and superb screen I will always have access to, and have a programming environment that is absolutely dripping in luxury baubles compared to what I started out with in the 1990s.

And then I frequently throw open a terminal and start up tmux with neovim in one window and a command line for git and the like in another.

There is something about understanding the tools and the process, the author is kind of right there, but also, there is just something about the ergonomics and speed of it all. There is more flexibility to extend easily, to customise, to make my environment fit using these more "primitive" tools than there is in taking an opinionated stack somebody else has designed.