I started programming professionally in 2015. I’ve tried all the “big name” GUI editors: Eclipse, IntelliJ, Sublime, Atom, Notepad++, VSCode. Now I use vim full

I started programming professionally in 2015. I’ve tried all the “big name” GUI editors: Eclipse, IntelliJ, Sublime, Atom, Notepad++, VSCode. Now I use vim full time and I love it. I grant that vim is not the most user friendly, but if you take the time to learn it it can do almost everything most IDEs do, including symbol based navigation, “fuzzy finding”, search-and-replace, etc. And that’s just native Vim — some plugins make these features completely comparable with (or better than!) IDEs. I’m convinced that modal editing is the most efficient way to edit text, and vim’s biggest feature is how tightly integrated it is with the terminal. In a GUI editor, using a terminal means either using a subpar integrated terminal (like in VSCode) or switching over to my terminal emulator to run some commands and then switching back. Since I spend a lot of my time in the terminal, this is a big deal for me.