> There was definitely a time 10 years or so ago when vim seemed to have massive popularity online and everything else seemed to fly under the radar. The popul

> There was definitely a time 10 years or so ago when vim seemed to have massive popularity online and everything else seemed to fly under the radar. The popularity of vim frankly surprises me. Vim is 1970s to its bones, with nothing to suggest that it’d be picked up so widely. (Saying this as a vim user of about two decades who has only been able to switch to Emacs thanks to evil mode.)