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Is Vim having some kind of resurgence of late? I've been a vi/vim user for 10+ years now but it seems like its popularity has really started shooting up in the

Is Vim having some kind of resurgence of late? I've been a vi/vim user for 10+ years now but it seems like its popularity has really started shooting up in the last couple of years.

jarin 16y ago
At least in the Ruby community (where most developers are on Macs), it seems to be due to TextMate's lack of progress. A few years ago, it seemed like most Ruby developers were using TextMate, but as TextMate 2 got pushed farther and farther back (and started to look like vaporware and/or bloatware), they started to look around for something with the power of TextMate but with more extensibility. Some IDEs and a few TextMate extensions started to pop up, but I think it was a timely post by Jamis Buck that inspired a lot of Ruby developers to make the switch to Vim, then PeepCode came out with some stuff, then it snowballed from there: http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2008/10/10/coming-home-to-vim http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2008/10/10/coming-home-to-vim
- xutopia 16y ago
  You could be the official Ruby historian.
- johncoltrane 16y ago
  It doesn't happen only in the Ruby community. A lot of people are switching. The hacker in me wanted something more raw and more powerful and I switched for Vim which is amazing IMHO compared to TextMate. Others are moving to Coda or Espresso. TM2 has to be VERY good to make all of us come back.
bajsejohannes 16y ago
I started using it maybe three years ago, and so did a friend of mine. The only reason was "we should probably check it out". I'm guessing the real reason was that there was a lot of buzz about it back than, and there still is. (It's funny, half the time I do something original, everyone else is doing the same thing)
bmj 16y ago
I recently converted back to Vim for all my non-.NET work (and Visual Studio is configured with Vim keybindings). I like having a single editor that I can use across platforms.

Is Vim having some kind of resurgence of late? I've been a vi/vim user for 10+ years now but it seems like its popularity has really started shooting up in the last couple of years.

jarin 16y ago

At least in the Ruby community (where most developers are on Macs), it seems to be due to TextMate's lack of progress. A few years ago, it seemed like most Ruby developers were using TextMate, but as TextMate 2 got pushed farther and farther back (and started to look like vaporware and/or bloatware), they started to look around for something with the power of TextMate but with more extensibility. Some IDEs and a few TextMate extensions started to pop up, but I think it was a timely post by Jamis Buck that inspired a lot of Ruby developers to make the switch to Vim, then PeepCode came out with some stuff, then it snowballed from there: http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2008/10/10/coming-home-to-vim http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2008/10/10/coming-home-to-vim

xutopia 16y ago
You could be the official Ruby historian.
johncoltrane 16y ago
It doesn't happen only in the Ruby community. A lot of people are switching. The hacker in me wanted something more raw and more powerful and I switched for Vim which is amazing IMHO compared to TextMate. Others are moving to Coda or Espresso. TM2 has to be VERY good to make all of us come back.

bajsejohannes 16y ago

I started using it maybe three years ago, and so did a friend of mine. The only reason was "we should probably check it out". I'm guessing the real reason was that there was a lot of buzz about it back than, and there still is. (It's funny, half the time I do something original, everyone else is doing the same thing)

bmj 16y ago

I recently converted back to Vim for all my non-.NET work (and Visual Studio is configured with Vim keybindings). I like having a single editor that I can use across platforms.