> Then there's the deb vs. rpm dichotomy, - CPIO is a superior package format, PERIOD. - The package manager is what matters THOUGH. - Both rpm, dpkg, and apt are showing their age. No comment on whether the replacements in those distros are even decent. > and we will not mention vi vs. emacs because surely the 1970s are > over? Look. If you're developing in *Vi*, not any Vi-inspired editor, you *may* be doing it wrong by modern standards! The holy war is irrelevant. But looking down on most modern editors because they don't have composable key bindings is still relevant. https://medium.com/@mkozlows/why-atom-cant-replace-vim-433852f4b4d1#.ksww5ypjf > PS. vim FTW NeoVim? I'd say Vis if it had any plugin ecosystem (Rails nonsense), and a few features from Vim which I use. At least it doesn't do brittle regex-based syntax like Vim. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags