I personally use vim for practically everything I do and always have and the main reason is because it's simple and straightforward. I don't like IntelliJ or Eclipse because they make simple things easy and hard things hard for me at least, I find there's probably a way of doing it but it's hidden under layers of insanity. I understand vim really well and will always choose it over nearly anything else I suspect for that reason, with plugins it becomes every bit as good as an IDE.
Incidentally I did find debuggers were missing so I wrote my own. Admittedly I shouldnt have to but I now find I can literally do anything I might care about in an IDE.
Still, great post and I enjoyed reading it. Thanks.
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I personally use vim for practically everything I do and always have and the main reason is because it's simple and straightforward. I don't like IntelliJ or Eclipse because they make simple things easy and hard things hard for me at least, I find there's probably a way of doing it but it's hidden under layers of insanity. I understand vim really well and will always choose it over nearly anything else I suspect for that reason, with plugins it becomes every bit as good as an IDE.
Incidentally I did find debuggers were missing so I wrote my own. Admittedly I shouldnt have to but I now find I can literally do anything I might care about in an IDE.
Still, great post and I enjoyed reading it. Thanks.