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Why? How are either of them superior to VS Code?
by zarkov99 6y ago
Why? How are either of them superior to VS Code?
- konjin 6y agoI can run them on a breadboard. An exaggeration, but not a large one.
- mdaniel 6y ago"Superior" for sure isn't the word I'd use, almost every one of the editors and IDEs make a bunch of trade-offs that appeal to different audiences IMHO, the barrier to entry for modification for both emacs and vim is much lower than their competition: evaluate text in a buffer, observe change to your editor I don't know of any other tooling has that immediate feedback loop remeniscient of the old JS in HTML (or the dev tools console, as apples to apples) approachability
- loulouxiv 6y agoI am more accustomed to vim than emacs. Some things I painfully miss when using something else than vim : quick and easy shortcuts to jump around the file, delete words/blocks/parenthesis, place marks to jump between parts of one or multiple files, macros, filtering parts of the file through external command...
- Koshkin 6y agoI know, “memory is cheap,” but still...