[johannboehme]

I dont know.. The argument i read all the time is "i don't want to invest time in vim". But what kind of professional spends hours uppon hours learning his craft (programming), but is unwilling to invest some of those hours into mastering professional tools? What about sharpening the axe? The amount of time i saved by sticking to vim is definitly more that the time i needed to learn it.. IDEs are easy mode and waste of resources. Its ok to start with them as a noob, but down the line i want to customize every part of my toolchain. (And thats just horrible to do in VSCode etc..)

[mangodrunk]

If someone likes to use vim, then so be it. If someone likes to use VSCode, then so be it. IDEs can also be called productive mode and use the right amount of resources necessary for large projects. They will get the job done, and for many it is the preferred option.

Vim doesn’t have to be the tool you use when there are others. If it was the only tool, I’d agree that people should know it better. Thankfully it’s not the only one.

[kzrdude]

Some hours is not what one should put into Vim, IMO. I've used it for many years and felt I got better at it very gradually (maybe I'm like that with most things). It's much more than hours! It's using it every day for a few years :)

To honor the many-years of vim, I relearned a new vim feature now: using :g to run a macro like this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/5292858