Folks, it seems fairly clear to me that the point of this article isn't to convince you that TextMate is the perfect tool, it's to make you think about the tools that make you more efficient.

For me, personally, there are certain things about TextMate that make it more efficient than any web development IDE I've used. Note that saying that is not equivalent to "you should abandon Eclipse even if you love it," nor is it equivalent to "only morons use Vim." It isn't even equivalent to "there is nothing that I see in other editors that I wish TextMate had." (TM misses a few things that it really needs, and there's stuff you can do in Vim with the "g" command that will really blow your socks off: find me any other editor which can execute, in one built-in command, "delete every line in this file which is immediately after a line containing the word 'banana'.") And if you never really get into snippets and bundles, TM probably isn't going to catch fire for you. Terrific. I know a lot of people who still love BBEdit (and I might still myself, except that it has a crucial flaw for people who come down on the "spaces" side of the "tabs vs. spaces" war like I do).

So the question isn't "should I use TextMate," it's "what makes me efficient?" The editor/IDE you use isn't as important as whether you know it well enough to make it jump through hoops.