[Draiken]

> that macho programmer

Why do people keep making value judgements about people that built tools they trust like they should be ashamed or something like that?

Parent simply explained his process and why he uses vim like that and why he doesn't like VSCode. There's nothing there that says "macho" in any shape or form. I don't understand this need to put labels on others like this. Maybe it makes people feel better about their own choices? Helps with insecurity? I don't know.

Whatever it is, this doesn't add to the conversation at all.

[airlust]

I think it’s because of the statement “you can only copy what you understand”. I get the sentiment, but comes off as paternal rather than collaborative.

[Draiken]

Could be, but how is that macho in any way?

If anything, it's sound advice. Most of my early day colleagues copy/pasted everything from StackOverflow without understanding any of it, causing huge issues down the line.

They were the classic duct-tape programmers and that didn't help them at all to grow as programmers and even impacted their careers.

Labeling this as "macho" implies that properly understanding your tools is actively bad. Couldn't be further from the truth.