4-5 years ago I was all about the editors with pretty UIs (VS Code, Brackets, Atom, JetBrains IDEs, etc). I thought Vim was dumb and outdated. Boy was I wrong.

4-5 years ago I was all about the editors with pretty UIs (VS Code, Brackets, Atom, JetBrains IDEs, etc). I thought Vim was dumb and outdated. Boy was I wrong. I eventually decided to try out Emacs, and settled on Spacemacs, which comes with Evil mode pre-installed (a Vim emulation layer on top of Emacs), so I basically had to learn some Vim bindings. Now I'm on Doom, which uses them even more heavily. And boy do I regret not having learned this stuff sooner. So much faster and simpler than jumping through UIs and pointing and clicking. If you haven't heard of it already, Vim/NeoVim come with a tutorial built-in, called Vimtutor. Definitely run through that for a quick interactive primer on how to effectively use the basics. Also, the bonus is that Vim is much more lightweight and snappy than VS Code, even on much older and cheaper machines. So you'll feel at home anywhere you run it. The same cannot be said for VS Code.