I'm a Systems Reliability and DevOps engineer for Netdata Inc. When not working, I enjoy studying linguistics and history, playing video games, and cooking all kinds of international cuisine.
One big thing which seems to be forgotten by a lot of people on both sides: vim is tiny by modern standards for how many features it provides. VSCode quite simply cannot compete here because it uses Electron and has all the baggage that comes with that.
If that matters to you, sure. These days the smallest amount of RAM I have to work with is 16GB and I know I'm not the only one. From an absolute standpoint VIM uses a lot less resources but from a % standpoint they are both so low that their impact is effectively equivalent so I can compare them directly on ease-of-use, functionality, etc.
I get a ton more battery life on vim than I do on vscode and the JetBrains ides. Even when I load up vim with a ton of plugins. Sublime is also better than vscode, so thats a consideration if you like to work and not carry a brick with you. I do agree that for the most part the majority of us with modern computers the ram/cpu is a wash.
That is a much stronger point. To me this factor is still a wash because a) 95% of my development is done on a power cord and b) even if I'm out-and-about on my laptop what kills my battery is other intensive programs (aka FireFox) or running the program I'm working on rather than the editor itself. But I totally get that there are people who need to get more than a few hours out of their laptop at a time and will adjust their tools accordingly.
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One big thing which seems to be forgotten by a lot of people on both sides:
vimis tiny by modern standards for how many features it provides. VSCode quite simply cannot compete here because it uses Electron and has all the baggage that comes with that.If that matters to you, sure. These days the smallest amount of RAM I have to work with is 16GB and I know I'm not the only one. From an absolute standpoint VIM uses a lot less resources but from a % standpoint they are both so low that their impact is effectively equivalent so I can compare them directly on ease-of-use, functionality, etc.
I get a ton more battery life on vim than I do on vscode and the JetBrains ides. Even when I load up vim with a ton of plugins. Sublime is also better than vscode, so thats a consideration if you like to work and not carry a brick with you. I do agree that for the most part the majority of us with modern computers the ram/cpu is a wash.
That is a much stronger point. To me this factor is still a wash because a) 95% of my development is done on a power cord and b) even if I'm out-and-about on my laptop what kills my battery is other intensive programs (aka FireFox) or running the program I'm working on rather than the editor itself. But I totally get that there are people who need to get more than a few hours out of their laptop at a time and will adjust their tools accordingly.