- If you've ever looked beyond the Microsoft echo chamber in the last decade, you will have heard a particularly group of developers boast unmatched productivity. Those would be <a href="http://rubyonrails.org/">Ruby on Rails</a> developers. Lately, it seems to me that many alpha geeks gravitate towards JavaScript (and particularly <a href="http://nodejs.org/">Node.js</a>). And what about <a href="http://www.python.org/">Python</a> or Clojure? In all cases it seems that the reason why cutting edge programmers are leaving .NET, in favor of other languages and platforms, is because of better productivity. What do these languages have in common? Well, the preferred development environment certainly isn't Visual Studio. These programmers 'get by' with <a href="http://www.vim.org/">Vim</a>, <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/">Emacs</a>, <a href="http://www.sublimetext.com/">Sublime Text</a>, and many other editors. Apparently, it's possible to be 'crazy productive' without Visual Studio and a 'productivity tool'.
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