Honest question: what’s the point of this question? what does it matter?<p>If “legendary programmers” all chiseled bits into a disk with a scalpel would that make it a good idea?<p>Use whatever makes you comfortable and allow others to do the same. Don’t emulate or even care about “legendary programmers” tooling.
I know John Carmack prefers an IDE. I believe he talks about it in this interview with Lex Fridman<p><a href="https://youtu.be/I845O57ZSy4" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/I845O57ZSy4</a>
Andreas kling of serenityOS uses clion, and makes good use of its features. He's an awesome programmer, and no doubt proficient in vim if he needs to be, but seeing him interact with the IDE does shown its use, especially with the speed he operates at.
So anyone programming in the last 25 years or so?<p>25 years ago I was using a mix of Visual Studio and Emacs. 25 years later I use Emacs a bit but don’t write much code. I use BBEdit more than Emacs now.
I remembered this Geany example.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePZEkbbf3fc" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePZEkbbf3fc</a><p>Bio:<p>> My name is Kamil Dębowski (or Errichto) and I'm quite good at competitive programming. I'm a finalist of multiple big programming competitions like ICPC, Facebook Hacker Cup and Google Code Jam (even got 2nd place in 2018). I also organize competitions, which means inventing and preparing problems.<p>Not sure if they still use Geany, or if you consider this person legendary (some people really gatekeep around words like that), but there's at least a data point for you.