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Discussion on: Vim: from foe to friend in 9 minutes

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Omer Hamerman • Edited

Well, it's a good question and I think it comes down to this:
Most IDE's want you to learn their language, syntax and shortcuts. They are all inherently adjusted to modern desktops using mouse and arrow-based keyboards. They want to lure you into using them and sticking with them with shiny features and colors.
Vim is hard. It takes time and effort, other IDEs can't afford to lose you just because they have a "vision" of how productivity should be.

On top of that, even if one of them were to adopt everything Vim does, it'll never be as low-resource requireing as Vim, and will never become a standard to be found on any Unix server to use...

I think that explains it more or less.