I’ve tried vim on and off during college but never really had the time to fully get working with it. As it turns out the stress of two degrees is not conducive to “fun activities”. Now that I have a real job ™️, I’ve decided to finally try and use it this week full stop and I genuinely feel like a programming chad. There’s still a lot I’ll need to learn and probably overtime I’ll discover some inefficiency in how I’m using it now but it really does just feel good. I understand the hype now.

    • crimsonpoodle@pawb.social
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      12 hours ago

      Hey hey lets take a step back. Why the ad hominem? Its a text editor, you have strong opinions about it, thats ok.

      But wouldn’t you say that someone who has strong opinions about a text editor is also a nerd?

      It might be a losing battle with scale. But can we please all try and make this platform have a little bit of civility?

      IDEs have useful features like debuggers and lsp and documentation for sure, but why hate people for enjoying tinkering and setting things up the way they like them?

      There are plenty of valid reasons not to want to use an ide: privacy, bloat, and lack of agency to nave a few.

      I use both often at the same time: vim can be really great for looking at logs, and I need xCode and Android studio because of the way the ecosystems are currently set up.