Agreed. Neither VS Code nor VS Codium (my preferred variant, telemetry-free) have ever broken my setup with an update, something I can’t say about NeoVim or Emacs.
I've had one vanilla vim breakage in over a decade of use. A common pattern I see that inhibits vim usage is:
- Using too many plugins without understanding all that vim has to offer.
- Cargo culting configs instead of building up little by little.
- Trying too hard to rice vim in appearance without adding meaningful utility.
The same applies for Emacs. Vim and emacs are powerful editors not controlled by corporations, have succeeded for decades when other editors have floundered, can run in any basic computing environment/terminal, and are logically present in many Unix tools. Like all of software engineering, a deeper understanding of the system you're using pays huge dividends in the long run.
In short, take the time to learn one of these editors in it's basic form and then nurture a small config that can go a long way, and you will find success.
Telemetry reduced -
https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/blob/master/DOCS.md#dis...