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Discussion on: We want to feature your voice on DevDiscuss! This week's topic: Vim

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ABHINAVA GHOSH (he/him) • Edited

Vim is the grand-daddy of ide's.
Vim is older than many of the junior devs around.
Jokes aside . Vim is a very simple yet powerful tool, but given the modern ide's advanced functionality and their more user friendly graphical interface, there are better options available than vim.

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MDobak • Edited

I love Vim when I have to do some simple work on remote server via SSH but I can't understand why somebody might want to use it for daily work as an IDE. I think Vim is little overhyped today.

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Nathan Kallman

Neovim is my daily driver. Literally all of my tooling is command line based though (running specs, builds, deploys, git, etc.). So my command line is essentially my integrated dev environment.

If tooling isn't in the command line though, then I can see the value of a purposeful IDE that builds in those other tools.