For the article: If you try to argue for superiority, you should probably check the alternatives first and give an example where your preferred choice is obviou

For the article: If you try to argue for superiority, you should probably check the alternatives first and give an example where your preferred choice is obviously superior - the example of adding an empty body to each method is a great example where Sublime with multiple cursors beats vim (sure you can get them in vim to, but it doesn't show vim being superior). For vim itself: I have seen friends trying to learn it. I have seen PhDs and postdocs use it. I have seen coworkers use it. The only people who I could see were editing text as fast as friends/PhDs/coworkers using Sublime were my tech leads. The smartest most proficient and effective programmers I have ever met. Everyone else was slower, at times wrestled with the editor (by this I mean that they executed commands and had to redo them because they didn't do what they wanted). I guess the conclusion is that people can learn to use vim as proficiently as Sublime, but most will fail or it will take them years (and I mean 5 or 10 years). Actually, two of my tech leads, when I showed them some trick in Sublime were like: I should look into this. Maybe I'll just boldly argue that vim is inferior after all :).