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I joined a new team that's very VSCode centric and I've been thinking a lot about why I still prefer vim. My latest observation is that I find all the toolbars
by 8organicbits 2y ago
I joined a new team that's very VSCode centric and I've been thinking a lot about why I still prefer vim. My latest observation is that I find all the toolbars and other content filling the screen to be visually noisy. I turned on Copilot and wow it's more toolbars and text is flying into where I'm trying to write. Vim just lets me looks at, think about, and write code. I can't get into "flow" with VSCode.
Oh and since people are citing age in sibling posts, I'm mid-30s. I used emacs in university and switched to vim at my first job. I used IntelliJ for a really gnarly Java project, but otherwise I keep using vim.
- regularfry 2y agoThat's exactly what I dislike about vscode. It's so easy to trigger some pop-over that moves or obscures the precise thing you're trying to read. The only thing really keeping me using it is copilot.