I can't read the article as I'm getting a security warning. But I've always felt really awkward using an IDE like VS or Eclipse. Even as a beginner when I had no experience of using anything else I thought it was a bit, uncomfortable pointing and clicking and having numerous menu options in my face all the time. So when I got introduced to Emacs by a former colleague I started out with a great amount of scepticism, I mean why should Emacs be so great when nothing else I had tried up until that point hadn't. (I went through VS, Eclipse, Sublime, Atom and 15 minutes of Spacemacs in advance). And at first I wasn't impressed, the concept of doing 99.9% of everything using only the keyboard was completely foreign to me. But the more I got used to it, and all basic key bindings, the more I grew to love Emacs. Today, some three years later I can't even imagine myself developing using something else. I know one can set up other IDEs to get basically the same functionality. But yeah, Emacs comes with the functionality built in so why should I go through all the hassle of setting up the key bindings in VS?