• leisesprecher@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    And how often does that happen in the real world?

    VIM may have been a very useful tool 20 or 30 years ago, but today it’s nothing else but a tool for one’s sense of superiority. It’s the vinyl of editors.

    If you have to type that much code in a terminal, your infrastructure is outdated. Simple as that.

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      VIM may have been a very useful tool 20 or 30 years ago, but today it’s nothing else but a tool for one’s sense of superiority. It’s the vinyl of editors.

      So, because you don’t understand something, it’s outdated?

      If you have to type that much code in a terminal, your infrastructure is outdated. Simple as that.

      Ok, I can see you have no idea what you’re talking about.

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        2 months ago

        I understand it very well. And that’s exactly why I’m writing this.

        Ok, I can see you have no idea what you’re talking about.

        Then say, grandmaster delusion, what purpose does vim serve, where it is actually the best tool? Writing code? Hardly, it’s way too limited and requires a ton of upfront investment and headspace. Writing config files? Hardly, because if you write these by hand, you’re living in the 90s, that’s what Ansible, Terraform etc are for.

        You just don’t want to admit, that vim is nothing more than a habit. Muscle memory.

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      I actually use VIM bindings in PyCharm, slightly cursed but actually works really well and meshes fairly nicely with the other IDE shortcuts. Being able to use it in any terminal is a nice bonus.