In all fairness, the argument being made is that learning vim is a waste of time for programmers on a deadline who don't already know it, or they wouldn't benef

In all fairness, the argument being made is that learning vim is a waste of time for programmers on a deadline who don't already know it, or they wouldn't benefit from it. I have made the same argument about learning PHP, MATLAB and C# (while at the same time being eager to learn about just about any language new to me, eg, Go, Scala, Clojure, Haskell, etc).