I've been using Vim for about 20 years. Before that I used Emacs for 2 years.
After a particularly interesting "my editor is better than your editor" flamewar with a coworker, we made a deal: I'd use Vim for 6 months, and he'd use Emacs for 6 months.
At the end of the 6 months, he switched back to Vim, and I never went back to Emacs. (I'm not saying Vim is better than Emacs. I'm saying that Vim is better for me.)
So for anyone thinking of using Vim my response is simply, "It's too late for me! Save yourself!" That's a "ha-ha only serious... well, only slightly serious."
Vim let's me become one with the keyboard. The editor gets out of the way. My fingers know it tacitly. I never have to reach for the mouse.
Bill Joy, the creator of vi, said that vi was made in the day of 300 baud modems and every character of very limited bandwidth was precious. These days, we have gigabit internet connections. The reason that vi is the way it is is no longer is a factor.
Yet I still use Vim, every day. I also use Visual Studio and Xcode... but when I want to do serious coding* I hop over to Vim.
* which is in C++... another "It's too late for me! Save yourself!"
I've been using Vim for about 20 years. Before that I used Emacs for 2 years.
After a particularly interesting "my editor is better than your editor" flamewar with a coworker, we made a deal: I'd use Vim for 6 months, and he'd use Emacs for 6 months.
At the end of the 6 months, he switched back to Vim, and I never went back to Emacs. (I'm not saying Vim is better than Emacs. I'm saying that Vim is better for me.)
So for anyone thinking of using Vim my response is simply, "It's too late for me! Save yourself!" That's a "ha-ha only serious... well, only slightly serious."
Vim let's me become one with the keyboard. The editor gets out of the way. My fingers know it tacitly. I never have to reach for the mouse.
Bill Joy, the creator of vi, said that vi was made in the day of 300 baud modems and every character of very limited bandwidth was precious. These days, we have gigabit internet connections. The reason that vi is the way it is is no longer is a factor.
Yet I still use Vim, every day. I also use Visual Studio and Xcode... but when I want to do serious coding* I hop over to Vim.
* which is in C++... another "It's too late for me! Save yourself!"
Visual Studio Code vim plugin is awesome ! Even if I like VSCode, I can't get away from my neovim config and all the plugins I have.