I've seen (very) competent programmers at varying degrees of tool mastery. If we're talking text editing tools at least. I don't consider text editing speed th

I've seen (very) competent programmers at varying degrees of tool mastery. If we're talking text editing tools at least. I don't consider text editing speed that important to my programming productivity. I like things that help me comprehend code, like syntax highlighting and being able to easily jump to definitions or a tool tip telling me what arguments a function needs. This is not directed at you particularly, but when I see people say they are faster at navigating the cursor with hjkl than the arrow keys, I can't help but roll my eyes. I'm pretty comfortable with navigating text in Vim. It's great how little strain it puts on your arms to not have to reach for your mouse. But overall the mouse is such a superior pointing device, and I have to use it for tons of other stuff anyway, that I feel like I'm putting a lot less overall strain on myself by using a "normal" modern non-modal editor. I've used Vim for years. But after forcing myself to learn to use the mouse for text editing tasks, I'm actually in the Zone a lot more often. I almost feel like a 10x-er in comparison to my Vim years.