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At work nobody understands why I use Vim, I'm tired of having to explain myself to my coworkers and hearing all the time "Why don't you just switch to Atom?"
by sayelt 10y ago
At work nobody understands why I use Vim, I'm tired of having to explain myself to my coworkers and hearing all the time "Why don't you just switch to Atom?"
- threatofrain 10y agoI have trouble understanding Vim as well. It seems to be good at code editing, where I find that I'm not bottlenecked there. I'm bottlenecked at my ability to plan and think about programs. Once I have either a plan or comprehension of a program, I move at lightspeed, and typing becomes a small proportion of software production time. When editing an unknown codebase, it becomes even more imperative to have comprehension + plan before making an edit. Also, since its my ability to comprehend and plan that is so strained, I'm not sympathetic to Vim's lack of anything like intellisense, or cross-file grammar and type awareness + autocomplete.
- 2muchcoffeeman 10y agoExactly why I use vim bindings in Intellj. Typing may be a small part, but there's no reason not to make that part efficient.