I used Vim for a few years and still do whenever I need to do something quick.
I love it but I would spend too much time simply tinkering with it. It was fun and honestly things are much easier now than they used to but still I don't want to spend hours making my setup perfect for no reason. Specially now that I have to use Windows... Some things are harder to do / they don't work properly / feel sluggish.
My personal recommendation is that you try one of the Vim emulators. I think that Vim keybindings themselves are great and I even use them to browse the web. Sometimes it's not enough and I will open Vim because some feature is missing in the emulator but for regular use it's enough.
The keybindings themselves save me time when working but at the end of the day I spent months learning them so if I was to do the math it would probably not be worth it. That said, Vim has given me a lot more than "saving time" and I personally enjoy writing code more using it.
Nowadays I need an IDE and I don't want to spend too much time configuring my editor so I use IdeaVim and VsCodeVim. IV is flawless and VCV is good enough. Give them a try.
I am just rambling I think...
If you like to tinker and learn random things then go for Vim
If you are just curious try an emulator (and don't give up in 2 days)
If you think Vim will instantly make you a better/faster programmer then just don't. It will never do that, even after years
I used Vim for a few years and still do whenever I need to do something quick.
I love it but I would spend too much time simply tinkering with it. It was fun and honestly things are much easier now than they used to but still I don't want to spend hours making my setup perfect for no reason. Specially now that I have to use Windows... Some things are harder to do / they don't work properly / feel sluggish.
My personal recommendation is that you try one of the Vim emulators. I think that Vim keybindings themselves are great and I even use them to browse the web. Sometimes it's not enough and I will open Vim because some feature is missing in the emulator but for regular use it's enough.
The keybindings themselves save me time when working but at the end of the day I spent months learning them so if I was to do the math it would probably not be worth it. That said, Vim has given me a lot more than "saving time" and I personally enjoy writing code more using it.
Nowadays I need an IDE and I don't want to spend too much time configuring my editor so I use IdeaVim and VsCodeVim. IV is flawless and VCV is good enough. Give them a try.
I am just rambling I think...
Thanks for sharing your experience.