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[–] 63 points 2 years ago (10 children)

The best thing about Vim is that despite having all the features of a modern IDE it starts in 0.1s and you can start editing right away while the code data is loading asynchronously.

The worst thing about Vim is that... just kidding, there's nothing bad about it.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Vscode I'm always like all right let's code... Ah shit, the "what's new" window has popped up again in the middle of my typing...

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Also had to update virtually every time I touched it and half the time those updates would break it so I had to reinstall. I didn't use it on a daily basis or anything and it's been a few years so maybe they fixed that but it's why I don't currently use it (along with the fact that it's a microsoft product and I'm trying to stay away from all their shit as much as possible).

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It’s a trade off for sure. I think the area editors like Vim totally win in is when you need to ssh into a server and edit something. I think it will always exist because of this use case

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago*

    People meme about β€œq!” but it is super helpful to have that extra step, because sometimes your fingers are moving faster than your brain is. That quick switch back-n-forth vim - gcc - ./a.out loop and my probably ADHD mean that vim saying, β€œhey, remember you haven’t saved this yet” is a godsend.

    You are right about the best part about vim - you can work as fast you type.

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