&gt; Editors are, or should be, the sole tool necessary to sculpt a system.<p>Absolutely not true.  My guess is you are a web developer.<p>I am not going to spar with you.  Engineering is a world that goes way beyond web development.  I urge you to consider there&#x27;s far more out there than what you might have been exposed to.  To think that everything starts and ends with a text editor is a bit myopic.