> Programmers like using vim because it feels like solving a puzzle or RTS micro'ing and/or they have already sunk a huge amount of time into it and aren't will

> Programmers like using vim because it feels like solving a puzzle or RTS micro'ing and/or they have already sunk a huge amount of time into it and aren't willing to walk away (which is fine, but it's not evidence that these tools are better.) I am (was?) a heavy vim user - 10 years, a .vimrc with thousands of lines and many custom code and settings. I can vouch that in my case, one of the reasons that I did this is because I enjoyed it. I played around with many editors before I settled on vim, and I enjoyed it immensely. vim was my main editor for many years because it was the best at editing and still is. But for sure I wouldn't have sunk so much time into it without also having fun doing it. In the last few years, I've started experimenting with other editors/IDEs using vim mode, starting from spacemacs, and now using VSCode.