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Suprised to see Vim usage decreasing every year. Presumably most are defecting to Goland
by ayoisaiah 6y ago
Suprised to see Vim usage decreasing every year. Presumably most are defecting to Goland
- alrs 6y agoI doubt anyone is defecting in any numbers, but that the unix die-hards are being diluted by an influx of developers who prefer an IDE.
- noisy_boy 6y agoEven unix die-hards can see the benefits. I stuck to using vim for years and years until I ventured in learning some new languages and explored VSCode. Then I started working with Java and found IntelliJ. The gains when the IDE is actively working with you to autocomplete/point out errors/warnings/code formatting etc are undeniable. Recently I copied a Python script from Linux side to VSCode - the window basically lit up with suggetions/warnings about unused imports etc etc - and this is when the script was working fine in Linux. Cleaning up the code was super easy too. In case it is not obvious, I love *nix and I'm totally for modern IDEs. PS: I'm aware that a lot of these can be achieved by vim plugins/formatters etc - I do use some. But I can't be pursued to code Java in vim vs IntelliJ; its just not the same.