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For the last 10 years I've worked with perhaps 200 developers, I haven't seen a single one who uses vim or emacs, whether they are 20 or 50 years old. Maybe it'

For the last 10 years I've worked with perhaps 200 developers, I haven't seen a single one who uses vim or emacs, whether they are 20 or 50 years old. Maybe it's the nature of the work - web development (frontend and backend). I've known a few who use sublime text, and there was no correlation with either being a good developer or being productive (though I haven't met a bad developer using sublime yet, mediocre ones are common enough)

TimMeade 8y ago
In general I agree with you. But! I do know a couple programmers, one who is in his 20's and one older who use vim for everything. Honestly i would say the they are more productive doing it. Watching them work is astounding. Unfortunately the learning curve to that level is Everest like.
cheerlessbog 8y ago
I use Sublime or VS Code but for no purpose that I could not put Vim to if I wanted. Most of my coding work is reading and thinking. When navigating, I mostly use regexes (relying heavily on standard code format). After using VS for twenty years, I decided to try this more textual approach two years ago, and I believe I have become a better developer for it. An IDE makes it so easy to drop into the debugger. I try to gain understanding of the code and drop into the debugger only if necessary. With this barebones approach, I more deeply understand the system and more often fix bugs at the root rather than the symptom.