> The VS marketplace says this approach has about 6.5M installs And it's entirely to do with the fact that the creators were the only ones shameless enough to

> The VS marketplace says this approach has about 6.5M installs And it's entirely to do with the fact that the creators were the only ones shameless enough to call their extension "Vim". In the early days of VS Code, there were a few extensions that tried to tackle the problem of bringing Vim-style key bindings to VS Code. The VSCodeVim project, branded as simply "Vim" in the extension store, was easily among the worst of them at the time. With the unearned advantage from squatting on the "Vim" name, however, it managed to get most of the attention and contributions.