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I think the key with any editor/tool is to learn it well to be more efficient. VSCode is easy to use so it doesn't necessarily force you to learn the hotkeys and get good with it. Vim has a learning curve in order to use it, so it is very much learning by doing and forcing you to get better with it. Customizing an editor like Vim may not be worth the investment in time saved typing, but it may be preferred or a fun hobby for some.
When I code, I am usually not furiously typing away, I'm thinking more about what I want to do and then entering it. I don't believe the editor or using the mouse is slowing me down, I would still want to take my time. Learning the default hotkeys and features is enough for me, so I prefer VSCode.
Not specifically VSCode/Vim, but I'm also a big mouse user (probably due to my PC gaming background), but there is more and more "mouse shaming" that I see going on in the developer community. It has equal priority to the keyboard for me. Sometimes there just isn't a good keyboard shortcut to get to something on the screen which is frustrating and inefficient for me. Tabbing through a webpage is kind of like iterating through all items in an array (O(n)), but clicking on the exact link is like accessing a specific array index (O(1)). At least that is how I think of it. 🤷♂️
For webpages, vimium is the browser extension. Imitates the whole vim experience.
I started using i3wm on Arch. Then, felt the need for something similar keyboard-driven in browser. That's when I came across Vimium.
Funnily though, I learnt vim/neovim after few months using Vimium.
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I think the key with any editor/tool is to learn it well to be more efficient. VSCode is easy to use so it doesn't necessarily force you to learn the hotkeys and get good with it. Vim has a learning curve in order to use it, so it is very much learning by doing and forcing you to get better with it. Customizing an editor like Vim may not be worth the investment in time saved typing, but it may be preferred or a fun hobby for some.
When I code, I am usually not furiously typing away, I'm thinking more about what I want to do and then entering it. I don't believe the editor or using the mouse is slowing me down, I would still want to take my time. Learning the default hotkeys and features is enough for me, so I prefer VSCode.
Not specifically VSCode/Vim, but I'm also a big mouse user (probably due to my PC gaming background), but there is more and more "mouse shaming" that I see going on in the developer community. It has equal priority to the keyboard for me. Sometimes there just isn't a good keyboard shortcut to get to something on the screen which is frustrating and inefficient for me. Tabbing through a webpage is kind of like iterating through all items in an array (O(n)), but clicking on the exact link is like accessing a specific array index (O(1)). At least that is how I think of it. 🤷♂️
For webpages, vimium is the browser extension. Imitates the whole vim experience.
I started using i3wm on Arch. Then, felt the need for something similar keyboard-driven in browser. That's when I came across Vimium.
Funnily though, I learnt vim/neovim after few months using Vimium.