I have no brand loyalty whatsoever, but all my monitors have been Eizo's Since I bought Eizo Nanao Trinitron CRT monitors in 1990s. I'm a lazy shopper and those things are high quality every way. I still have FlexScan EV2303W's from 2009 or 2010 and use them daily.
While that looks like a great monitor, it's a 21.6" 4K OLED monitor that seems to retail for over $3000. It's less of a ridiculous option than the $6000 Apple 32" display, but for most of us (including, I'm fairly confident, original article author Casey Liss), it still falls into the "if you aren't sure you need this, you don't need this" category.
At first glance the history looks legit but there are missing holes. From 2004 till now we have multi platform/language editor called Eclipse. From early days it supports plugins. How that one fit in the story? Shouldn't author prefer that one for it's longevity?
The article seems to be focused on text editors, not IDEs. I'm not sure why it completely overlooks IDEs as an alternative. Perhaps the author is mostly a web developer, which I find is the main area where text editors really match IDEs in terms of features.
