[fvgs]

My attention span for text editor configuration decreased drastically after I finished school. For better or worse, being a professional means making the correct trade off when time, money, and productivity are at stake.

In the modern era, there are sufficiently many practical editors and IDE's with major economic investment behind making them highly functional out of the box. I simply cannot justify spending copious amounts of time configuring a text editor when there's sufficiently good and productive options out there.

Looks like the last edit I published to my Vim config was 5 years ago https://github.com/fvgs/.vim

But hey, maybe I'll find some "lazy" time to give LazyVim a go and give VSCode a break.

[nextlevelwizard]

As long as you know your tools and can achieve everything it doesn't matter which tool you choose.

I tend to mentor a lot of newbies and they often use VSCode, but since they are newbies they don't know how to do basic things like search (and replace) and I can't help them since I've only used vim. I have tried to give VSCode a go couple times to get more familiar with it, but I run into same issue as you - I simply can't justify in my head the time and effort to familiarize myself with the editor, figure out what settings to use and which addons to add.

[drngdds]

Yeah, I don't get the "use Vim for everything" approach unless you're just doing it because you find the customization and configuration fun. I usually use VS Code for quick editing and full IDEs for real work with big projects.

Modal editing is awesome though. I use modified Vim keybinds for everything, even web browsing.