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Yeah, even if that is true, what part of a tool used by close to 40% of developers is niche? niche /niːʃ,nɪtʃ/ (adjective) denoting products, services, o
by throwaway4496 1y ago
Yeah, even if that is true, what part of a tool used by close to 40% of developers is niche?
niche
/niːʃ,nɪtʃ/
(adjective)
denoting products, services, or interests that appeal to a small, specialized section of the population.
- davrosthedalek 1y agoIt's niche /for development work/. Being used by a developer doesn't make it used for development. Or the most used developing tool would be the toilet.
- throwaway4496 1y ago[flagged]
- AndyPa32 1y agoIt's not. I use vim on a daily basis, but all I do with it is writing commit messages. The rest I do with an IDE or different editor. I'm surely not alone with that.
- throwaway4496 1y agoAnd writing commit messages are to development in the same class as using the restroom?
- moi2388 1y agoJudging by the quality of most commit messages - yes.
- johnisgood 1y agoEven I switch to VSCodium when I write Go, for example, because the Go extension is just so good. I use it for medium- and large-sized projects, when I have to navigate through multiple files. There are ways to do it in Vim (I configured it), and Emacs, but sometimes it really is just easier to click since I am already using the mouse for stuff. There are people who never use their mouse, in which case I can imagine they use Emacs or Vim only.
- BeetleB 1y ago> Yeah, because I use vim to turn on the shower. You say that as if it's ridiculous. Isn't there an M-x shower-on command somewhere in Emacs?
- epcoa 1y agoWhile not going to argue that vim is niche, I don’t think it is. StackExchange surveys are likely highly unrepresentative and lack external validity. I do not believe 40% of developers use vim based on such an unvalidated and likely biased study.