I don’t think it’s just a mythical old greybeard thing. I’m 28 and I use vim for exactly this reason: a vi-like editor, not necessarily vim, is guaranteed to be

I don’t think it’s just a mythical old greybeard thing. I’m 28 and I use vim for exactly this reason: a vi-like editor, not necessarily vim, is guaranteed to be available everywhere. I don’t have any particular reason to like vim over emacs, other than the fact that there is value in using standard tools. My favorite OS, FreeBSD, comes with neither bash, nor emacs, nor Perl, so I don’t consider them part of the “lowest common denominator” set even in 2018. (Funnily enough, it does come with a C++ compiler!)