[Barrin92]

>But there is a downside to Vimming. It's a weird fringe interest, even amongst software developers who are already a weird fringe group

Is that even true though? The VsCode Vim extension has over 6 million users, pretty much every editor ships with a vim mode and if I had to guess most developers are at least cursory familiar with vi editing motions. The latest Stackoverlfow survey put vim at a respectable fith place[1] with 22% of devs using it.

I've never felt vim is some sort of fringe stumbling block, and that's coming from someone using Emacs day to day. (where a good chunk of people use evil mode)

[1]https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-most-popular-t...