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That one stat made me question the entire survey. There's no way so many people use VIM over Atom, Sublime, etc. Right? Someone reassure me here.

azemetre 9y ago
I've recently been having issues with Sublime randomly freezing and restarting (may be due to a package, but I'm not going to waste my time verifying what packages are misbehaving out of the hundreds I have installed), I've gone back to Vim. After setting Vim up for multiple environments (PHP, Go, Python, and JavaScript) it's now my daily driver. Maybe other people feel similar?
- flukus 9y ago
  > may be due to a package, but I'm not going to waste my time verifying what packages are misbehaving out of the hundreds I have installed Welcome to vim, but if you go overboard on plugins then you will have the same issues with it, probably more so.
  - azemetre 9y ago
    I'm finding with Vim that less is more, or maybe as I become more experience I'm not relying so much on the GUI aspect of text editors (creating new files, git integration, color pickers, etc) but instead just sticking to the command line for a variety of operations.
ahayter 9y ago
You're probably right, I'm the sole full-time vim user at my place of work (primarily a python shop). I was vindicated in my choice yesterday when somebody forgot to pay off the credit card and the jetbrains license payment bounced, so nobody could work because their pycharm locked them out. I get why people love pycharm though, it does a good job, but I always felt like it was such a pig. Plus you can write some hairy code because the IDE will just let you prance through it without a care in the world.
learc83 9y ago
I use both Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio with VIM keybindings. Does that count?
oatmealsnap 9y ago
Same here. This does not match up with other similar surveys. Also, apparently my opinions line up with that of a 55yo programmer...I'm 28. They must have sampled an older crowd that all use Vim and happen to like JavaScript more than most.
tpxl 9y ago
Its a VIM vs Emacs question, all the other answers are in the (other) category. Considering that, the results make sense.
oblio 9y ago
Among the hundreds of professional programmers I've seen, talked to and worked with, in Europe at least, Eclipse (Java), Visual Studio (.Net), Sublime/Visual Studio Code/Atom/Notepad++ (web folks), IntelliJ are far and away ahead of all other editors. I'm one of the relatively rare birds to also use Vim.

azemetre 9y ago

I've recently been having issues with Sublime randomly freezing and restarting (may be due to a package, but I'm not going to waste my time verifying what packages are misbehaving out of the hundreds I have installed), I've gone back to Vim. After setting Vim up for multiple environments (PHP, Go, Python, and JavaScript) it's now my daily driver. Maybe other people feel similar?

flukus 9y ago
> may be due to a package, but I'm not going to waste my time verifying what packages are misbehaving out of the hundreds I have installed Welcome to vim, but if you go overboard on plugins then you will have the same issues with it, probably more so.
- azemetre 9y ago
  I'm finding with Vim that less is more, or maybe as I become more experience I'm not relying so much on the GUI aspect of text editors (creating new files, git integration, color pickers, etc) but instead just sticking to the command line for a variety of operations.

ahayter 9y ago

You're probably right, I'm the sole full-time vim user at my place of work (primarily a python shop). I was vindicated in my choice yesterday when somebody forgot to pay off the credit card and the jetbrains license payment bounced, so nobody could work because their pycharm locked them out. I get why people love pycharm though, it does a good job, but I always felt like it was such a pig. Plus you can write some hairy code because the IDE will just let you prance through it without a care in the world.

learc83 9y ago

I use both Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio with VIM keybindings. Does that count?

oatmealsnap 9y ago

Same here. This does not match up with other similar surveys. Also, apparently my opinions line up with that of a 55yo programmer...I'm 28. They must have sampled an older crowd that all use Vim and happen to like JavaScript more than most.

tpxl 9y ago

Its a VIM vs Emacs question, all the other answers are in the (other) category. Considering that, the results make sense.

oblio 9y ago

Among the hundreds of professional programmers I've seen, talked to and worked with, in Europe at least, Eclipse (Java), Visual Studio (.Net), Sublime/Visual Studio Code/Atom/Notepad++ (web folks), IntelliJ are far and away ahead of all other editors. I'm one of the relatively rare birds to also use Vim.