For context, I'm saying it's not worth the trouble for the vast majority of people. Usage statistics agree with this. https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#sec

For context, I'm saying it's not worth the trouble for the vast majority of people. Usage statistics agree with this. https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-most-popular-technologies-integrated-development-environment https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-most-popular-t... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30848456#:~:text=%3E%20VS%20Code%20remains%20the%20most%20preferred%20editor,had%20in%20previous%20years.%20Vim%20is%20at%2014%25 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30848456#:~:text=%3E%20... And a good chunk of the 22.29%(vim)+11.88%(neovim) on that survey likely do not configure it out of the box (defaults) and are not using it as their sole/primary editor. Outside of the stackoverflow sphere, (n)vim usage is far less (globally). Aside from general usage scenarios, plugins and configuration is finicky and difficult most of the time. It requires care, maintenance and debugging to get things to work - and having to configure LSP/Tree sitter and other things can be frustrating. Things have gotten better, but OOBE leaves much to be desired. The quality of plugins seem to be somewhat better on VSC (though for some of the more established plugins, (n)vim have really good ones - so it's about even here). It is a simple matter of searching for what you want in the Marketplace. VSC gets me up and running in 15 minutes on a new machine, if necessary and provides enough working defaults that I can reasonably expect other people to be using the same thing. If not, it is a simple matter of creating a new profile (File>Preferences>Profiles>New) on someone else's machine - making my tweaks and I'm off to the races. I don't have to dive into someone else's config. As far as being judged harshly, I am not surprised at the responses I have gotten - the fact of the matter is: you have to be a unique person to want to use (n)vim. Just by virtue of using (n)vim, emacs or similar style editors - you are already in the outlier of users that code/program on their computer. Just like being here on HN already puts you on the outlier. HN, Reddit, stackoverflow all exist in their own bubble of technically skewed, predominantly male in their 20s to 40s.