Vim is very user friendly - to power users. Yes, it takes a bit to get used to its controls, but I'm not sure there's a super easy way to teach modal editing t

Vim is very user friendly - to power users. Yes, it takes a bit to get used to its controls, but I'm not sure there's a super easy way to teach modal editing to newcomers. On the other hand it's a really reliable and efficient tool that just doesn't try weird stuff. If you have a 1000 line configuration file you can blindly upgrade to the next version and trust everything is still working exactly the same. Considering how many apps do the opposite and add random changes all the time to A/B test everything, this is very valuable. And while I wouldn't call it perfect, I think editing text is really, really intuitive and fast once you're used to it, to a degree using a mouse in other editors feels slow.