"I hate the ideas many programmers have about backwards compatibility, unless it affects me." – FTFY > "There is nothing holy about Unix era software, chances

"I hate the ideas many programmers have about backwards compatibility, unless it affects me." – FTFY > "There is nothing holy about Unix era software, chances are it's shit and a lot of it should be thrown out." 1. we're still very much in the "Unix era" 2. There's nothing holy about software at all. Rules shouldn't be broken, but rules can be broken. > Look at SublimeText, it's got 1% of the features of Vim, yet it's converting Vim users left and right, by its sheer usability. If anything I'd say Vim is converting TextMate/SublimeText left and right. Most SublimeText users are former TextMate, and many new Vim users are former SublimeText users. > We as developers in the Open Source community should be ashamed people are still using Vim to write LaTeX in Bash running on terminal emulators Speak for yourself. I don't personally write LaTeX but I still very much use the shell, and Vim.