Did you mostly use vi to edit files? What were some of your goto IDEs?

No, I've always been an Emacs guy, and still am.

When I got started with Linux, on a 386 with 4 megs of memory, I used jed though because the machine was so limited - even back in the mid 90ies it was a pretty limited machine.

For me it was mostly vi editing perl cgi on Solaris or Linux boxes. Someone might have been using (x)emacs, but he was weird ;-)

Oh, and we didn't use source control either.

vi with perl cgi here, too.

I played a little with Java Applets. I still remember waiting for them to start up.

Oh gosh, I forgot those!

I even wrote a airline-booking-system terminal program in Java, all before swing reared its ugly head!

A scalable RESTful api service w/ easy to implement versioning, routing, etc.

Take a look at spray.io (Scala) then. The project has been acquired by Typesafe and a new version will soon be integrated into Akka as Akka-HTTP.

then go is the answer, take a look at, https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin

This is a pretty lightweight self-hosted kanban solution I've made: https://taskfort.com

The ios app should be coming out by the end of this month.

The only application holding me back from using Linux on all my machines is xcode.. only if there was a wine for mac apps that could run xcode.

A little bit off-top, but what are you using as your Host Machine? I've been trying to get Yosemite to install on VBox w/ Ubuntu as the host to no avail.

Yosemite is running on VMWare Fusion inside OS X Mavericks.