I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I think NERDTree is pitched at people coming from IDEs. It's a similar mindset to using tabs to represent files.
In the last few years, a lot of people have written about how a file pane doesn't make sense with Vim, and how tabs represent workspaces rather than buffers. Personally, I think it belongs to a group of plugins that don't fit the way I work with Vim at all. If I'm browsing through someone's post about how to start using Vim, and they start off by recommending NERDTree, I usually bail out around that point.
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I think NERDTree is pitched at people coming from IDEs. It's a similar mindset to using tabs to represent files.
In the last few years, a lot of people have written about how a file pane doesn't make sense with Vim, and how tabs represent workspaces rather than buffers. Personally, I think it belongs to a group of plugins that don't fit the way I work with Vim at all. If I'm browsing through someone's post about how to start using Vim, and they start off by recommending NERDTree, I usually bail out around that point.