Ahh, memories. I started hacking in Emacs on my Amiga 2000 in 1988. And later in Turbo Pascal in 1991ish.

When I saw Visual Studio years later, or Visual Basic, these IDEs were doing so much more, but I‘d lose the ability to fully control the bare text. These MS tools wouldn’t allow me to write my code in my favourite text editor and version it. So they were nice and a curse at the same time.