[phplovesong]

I think you can be productive in an IDE. But when it comes to vim (have been a vim-only user since 2013-2014) there is not a comparison really.

Every time i do pair programming, i always get the "wow how did you do that?!?" response. It's just SO much ahead of an IDE in so many ways. Modal editing (imho) is far superior to "just insert mode" style of text editing.

With neovim (and vim + coc before that) i get 95% of what an IDE could give me, and the last 5% (like some obscure refactoring stuff) is something is would probably never use.

TLDR. I think learning vim is like learning SQL. It's a cross language tool, that will massively benefit your entire career.