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by oshea64bit 2099 days ago
A bit of a tangent, but I think it would be worth distinguishing between vim-as-the-text-editor and vim-as-the-keybindings. For me, the value of vim comes from how quickly I can manipulate text, not necessarily that I can use a text editor in the terminal.

For bigger projects, I mostly use VSCode (and used IntelliJ in the past) but with vim bindings turned on. Because of this, I feel it's a bit difficult to compare the popularity of something like VSCode and Vim.
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RMPR 2099 days ago
The Vim extension in VSCode is very clumsy for many things, not to mention the lags and the slowness (which defeats the purpose of using Vim keybindings) that's what drove me back, but I keep an eye on Onivim[0] which aims to be VSCode with Vim as a first class citizen.

0: https://onivim.github.io/

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