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> It blows my mind that there's so much devotion to the tool first, problems second What made you think that their devotion to the tool indicates that they car
by kovac 4y ago
> It blows my mind that there's so much devotion to the tool first, problems second
What made you think that their devotion to the tool indicates that they care less about the problem? I wonder what you might think about me then in that I have vim integrated with mutt for composing emails, git, my password manager, code editor, text pager, etc land me in vim. I choose most my apps so that I can use vim for text editing. It gives me uniformity. It saves me time.
More importantly, I do not get a negative reaction from people that use different text editors for different text editing tasks looking for buttons to click, shortcuts to press in different places.
Especially nowadays, when tech is converging, getting locked down, and we are being told what and how to do things by a few companies, we must appreciate and encourage diversity of tools (except for emacs obviously:) that empower their users. Not be dismissive and judge them for using a tool that we don't use.
It's okay for people to master tools they find valuable, and use that mastery to do good things even if they're off-road tools (by today's standards) such as vim.