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OTOOH, GUI tools often tie you to a specific workstation setup. VIM is already installed everywhere you need it and does not require you to have a workstation

• kstenerud 4y ago
  > GUI tools often tie you to a specific workstation setup. VS Code and Android Studio can run on all major desktop operating systems, and more cross-platform IDEs are coming out. > VIM is already installed everywhere you need it and does not require you to have a workstation with a GUI The chances of you having a workstation without a GUI over the past 30 years has been pretty small unless you're a sysadmin.
  • iso1631 4y ago
    > The chances of you having a workstation without a GUI over the past 30 years has been pretty small unless you're a sysadmin. I spend a lot of time in the terminal and in vim (13 terminals open at the moment) I don't think I've used vim on a guiless terminal for a decade. The only thing I'm on a physical server for is for installing on bare metal with no ilo - which means a 640x480 text installer, USB stick, and a keyboard to type in the IP and gateway (although Ubuntu has broken that as of this year). Once that's done the install is automatic, and then I can ssh into it a few minutes later. 10 years ago maybe I used the terminal to edit things like /etc/network/interfaces to change network settings once in a blue moon. That's hardly a full featured use of vim though. However I do ssh into servers and edit files on those servers, and vim is on every server I connect to. I believe vscode will work transparently to do that though, editing over the ssh connection.
• sys_64738 4y ago
  VIM or vi?