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by stevens32 2177 days ago
I knew vim was old, but had no idea the lineage traced back 50 years. Vim has always felt like an exoskeleton suit compared to the spaceship dashboard of full-fledged IDEs. You can also add plugins to gain most of the functionality of an IDE.

It does have a blood price, some days I spend just as much time hacking on my vimrc/plugins as the actual code I opened vim for.