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Very true. People talking about how vim is so much more efficient than me using VSCode with my "slow" mouse inputs and I'm just thinking about how my brain is t
by ythn 9y ago
Very true. People talking about how vim is so much more efficient than me using VSCode with my "slow" mouse inputs and I'm just thinking about how my brain is the biggest bottleneck of all - it completely dwarfs keyboard and mouse bottlenecks.
- darkerside 9y agoThe slowest and most time-consuming thing is not writing code, but reading code. And vim, for me, optimizes reading a code base distributed across large numbers of files. I can be anywhere I want in seconds. I know other editors also have fuzzy file finders and text search, but damn does it just feel good surfing text objects at the speed of thought!
- hxegon 9y agoI agree 100%. I also feel like vim helps me stay in flow by providing a frictionless input environment. The way vim edits text is pretty close to the way I think about text. "change these quotes", "delete until that >", etc.
- WorldMaker 9y agoVSCode has a great Vim plugin these days and even without it, a ton of good key shortcuts. Not that maybe you need them today, but options if you need them. I think that's probably the best summary here: it's great having options. Also, speed isn't the only bottleneck to worry about. It's easy to forget about things like ergonomics. Things like hand movements in mousing and back and forth between mouse and keyboard can slowly take their toll. Again, it's great to have options to control the overall amount of movement.
- chillee 9y agoAwww, thanks. (One of the developers of VsCodeVim here.)