I'll add to the cacophony and say that my journey has been IntelliJ (when I was in college learning Java) -> VSCode -> Spacemacs (w/evil mode) -> (Neo)Vim Over

I'll add to the cacophony and say that my journey has been IntelliJ (when I was in college learning Java) -> VSCode -> Spacemacs (w/evil mode) -> (Neo)Vim Over time I've been getting more and more drawn to the trinity of lightweight, control, and reduction of noise/overhead. I don't like having things that I didn't specifically require/install/configure. I really appreciate the philosophy of starting at stock vim, and then add configuration/tools when you realize you need/want them. [ And of course, vim keybindings can't be beat ;) ]