In my mind I had the opposite picture than the one the article portrays.

Emacs was lagging behind common IDEs, like IntelliJ and VsCode, cause big companies put thousands of developers to combine many features into one integrated package and everything works together providing a very smooth experience compared to Emacs (and Vim probably).

Now IDEs are useless. I personally haven't felt the need to goto_definition or autocomplete variable names for almost 2 years.

Now programming becomes closer to plain text writing and editing and it levels the playing fields for all editors.

Also Emacs can run Rust plugins, the user is not limited to Elisp. Not very convenient but possible.

> Now IDEs are useless. I personally haven't felt the need to goto_definition or autocomplete variable names for almost 2 years.

So you are vibe coding? Some of us still check every line of code generated and an IDE definitely helps with that. Even more so when you need to take control.