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by arcturus17
2179 days ago
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The most important part of my point is not that I believe that they can’t be replicated, it’s that an IDE offers them with a time investment that’s nearly zero (I spend a couple hours per year fiddling with my IDE settings, tops). I’d add that I am also quite doubtful that although they may be replicated, in many cases there aren’t going to be gotchas and UX problems not present in one of the popular IDEs. I can’t remember the specifics but I know that when I set up code completion in vim it wasn’t nearly as good as the one in my editor. Never heard of spacevim but I have tried a few other “plug-and-play” vim adjutants like Pathogen and always ended up running into problems and spending more time on the issue than I had signed up for. Might solve some of the problems I mention, but I’m afraid it’s too late for me. My IDE does everything I need and more, working out of the box on all machines I own (they’re not even that powerful) with fantastic UX and minimal fuss. I’m a Jetbrains guy so it costs me 6€/month but amortized per hour spent it might as well be free. If I wanted to save that nominal cost I’d go with VSCode, which I’ve worked with before and is nearly as good. I’d turn this around and ask, why would I ever switch to pure vim? |
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I don't think that you should.
I'm only addressing the point that vim can't be used to do IDE like tasks, which with LSP support it clearly can
...but right now you will have to configure it if that's something you want. If it's not then you're good to go with your favourite IDE already.