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by unmole 101 days ago
I guess I'm nobody then.

I write code exclusively in vim. Unless you want to pretend that ctags is a proprietary version of an LSP, I'm not using an LSP either. I work at a global tech company, and the codebase I work on powers the datacenter networks of most hyperscalers. So, very much a real project. And I'm not an outlier, probably half the engineers at my company are just raw dawgin it with either vim or emacs.
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Alupis 100 days ago
Ctags are very limited and unpopular. Most people do not use them, by any measurement standard.

Using a text editor without LSP or some form of intellisense in 2026 is in the extreme minority. Pretending otherwise is either an attempted (and misguided) "flex" or just plain foolishness.

> probably half the engineers at my company are just raw dawgin it with either vim or emacs

Both vim and emacs support LSP and intellisense. You can even use copilot in both. Maybe you're just not aware...

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