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Yeah I’m in my 40s and have been using vim for decades. Sure there was an occasional rando stirring up the forums about made-up productivity gains to get some traffic to their blog, but that was it. There has always been push back from many of the strongest vim advocates that the appeal is not about typing speed or whatever it was they were claiming. It’s just ergonomics and power.

It’s just not comparable to the LLM crazy hype train.

And to belabor your other point, I have treesitter, lsp, and GitHub Copilot agent all working flawlessly in neovim. Ts and lsp are neovim builtins now. And it’s custom built for exactly how I want it to be, and none of that blinking shit or nagging dialog boxes all over VSCode.

I have VScode and vim open to the same files all day quite literally side by side, because I work at Microsoft, share my screen often, and there are still people that have violent allergic reactions to a terminal and vim. Vim can do everything VSCode does and it’s not dogshit slow.

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I am really curious what your thoughts on zed are, given that it has a lot of features and is still mostly vim compatible (from what i know) so you have the same ergonomics and power and it has some sane defaults / I don't need to tinker as much with zed as I would have to with nvim.

Its not that I don't like tinkering. I really enjoy tinkering with config files but I never could understand nvim personally since I usually want a lsp / good enough experience that nvim or any lunarvim etc. couldn't provide without me installing additional software.

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I haven’t tried zed and I’m getting old and set in my ways. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it and all that.

So if the claim is that I can get everything I have out of vim, most importantly being unbeatably fast text buffers, and I don’t need a suitcase full of config files, that’s very compelling.

Is that the promise of zed?