The problem with using Vim is that you have to learn Vim, but early in my career I was in single-ecosystem shops that all used IDE’s for whatever tech (Microsoft= Visual Studio, Java = Eclipse / NetBeans, PHP = Sublime Text, arguably not an IDE)
By the time I got to the point in my career where I got to choose the tooling, VSCode was already a thing and it has an extension for anything you can think of.
So I never had to learn Vim, and now it’s in the too-hard basket, and VSCode is ubiquitous and works surprisingly well
You might change your mind when you hit rock bottom and have to claw your way back with a 2011 shitbox laptop that attempts to kill itself if you dare to open a second firefox tab or, case in point, VSCode or anything that has been built with Electron.
I learnt vim and neovim out of necessity - because it takes only 30 MB on RAM
So I recently switched to vim as my text editor. And started using vimwiki for notes. But I must know what insanity could one possibly do with a Text editor other than… Well text edit.
If you use Vim you’ll never use any other software
I would respond… but I can’t figure out how to exit Vim
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The problem with using Vim is that you have to learn Vim, but early in my career I was in single-ecosystem shops that all used IDE’s for whatever tech (Microsoft= Visual Studio, Java = Eclipse / NetBeans, PHP = Sublime Text, arguably not an IDE)
By the time I got to the point in my career where I got to choose the tooling, VSCode was already a thing and it has an extension for anything you can think of.
So I never had to learn Vim, and now it’s in the too-hard basket, and VSCode is ubiquitous and works surprisingly well
You might change your mind when you hit rock bottom and have to claw your way back with a 2011 shitbox laptop that attempts to kill itself if you dare to open a second firefox tab or, case in point, VSCode or anything that has been built with Electron.
I learnt vim and neovim out of necessity - because it takes only 30 MB on RAM
That silly program can’t trick me! I used Vim last year and I’m totally able to use other programs!
…I just have to use Vim also at all times!
As long as they have a plugin for vim shortcuts. I don’t know how many :w I left strewn over my documents at work.
So I recently switched to vim as my text editor. And started using vimwiki for notes. But I must know what insanity could one possibly do with a Text editor other than… Well text edit.