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I think a lot of us have moved from Atom/Sublime over to VS Code these days. Seems like lots more momentum and gobs of useful plugins that let me do my work.

artursapek 9y ago
I guess this is the IDE crowd? Us vim guys are still raising eyebrows when people say "best free option" :)
- chillee 9y ago
  More so the "I want debugging and intellisense without the slowness of an IDE" crowd. :)
- hobofan 9y ago
  I've been a vim user for a long time. I switched to Atom despite its slowness because I finally get linter and autocomplete integrations that just work. Those have always been a pain to set up for me in vim, and when you are switching between machines all the time, that quickly becomes tiring. I don't see a reason to stick with traditional vim for the majority of my work, since most other editors have plugins with a very good coverage of the core vim features/keybindings. EDIT: Oh yeah, and multicurors. I just remembered that they were also a big part of reason for switching. At least at the time, every implementation of multicursors in vim was broken in a very major way for me.
  - artursapek 9y ago
    Re: multicursors, that's what macros are for.
    - hobofan 9y ago
      Sure, you can do most things with macros, but I prefer the interactivity of multicursors. With macros I have to carfully plan out how the macro will affect all the different instances where I let the macro run, and if something goes wrong, I have to revert it and try again. With multicursors I also have to do some trial and error, but usually much less since I can immediately see how each step influences the text at all cursor instances, and revert it in a much more granular way. If I have to do some heavier processing for 100-1000+ lines, I still use macros, but for most cases in my day to day programming multicursors just feel better.
- bdcravens 9y ago
  I guess I'd say lowest common denominator. As in install in 5 minutes and writing code with no experience crowd :-)
- tills13 9y ago
  The price is your soul.

artursapek 9y ago

I guess this is the IDE crowd? Us vim guys are still raising eyebrows when people say "best free option" :)

chillee 9y ago
More so the "I want debugging and intellisense without the slowness of an IDE" crowd. :)
hobofan 9y ago
I've been a vim user for a long time. I switched to Atom despite its slowness because I finally get linter and autocomplete integrations that just work. Those have always been a pain to set up for me in vim, and when you are switching between machines all the time, that quickly becomes tiring. I don't see a reason to stick with traditional vim for the majority of my work, since most other editors have plugins with a very good coverage of the core vim features/keybindings. EDIT: Oh yeah, and multicurors. I just remembered that they were also a big part of reason for switching. At least at the time, every implementation of multicursors in vim was broken in a very major way for me.
- artursapek 9y ago
  Re: multicursors, that's what macros are for.
  - hobofan 9y ago
    Sure, you can do most things with macros, but I prefer the interactivity of multicursors. With macros I have to carfully plan out how the macro will affect all the different instances where I let the macro run, and if something goes wrong, I have to revert it and try again. With multicursors I also have to do some trial and error, but usually much less since I can immediately see how each step influences the text at all cursor instances, and revert it in a much more granular way. If I have to do some heavier processing for 100-1000+ lines, I still use macros, but for most cases in my day to day programming multicursors just feel better.
bdcravens 9y ago
I guess I'd say lowest common denominator. As in install in 5 minutes and writing code with no experience crowd :-)
tills13 9y ago
The price is your soul.