About half the developers I know are using modern tooling (version control, IDEs, virtual machines images, testing tools, etc). The other half are very much in the 'ftp/notepad++' or maybe 'sublime text' camp.
Trying to convince people that they should be using version control even if they're the only developer on a project is usually like swimming through molasses.
Why are you and others lumping IDE's in with the rest of "modern tooling"? And what do they have to do with version control? Or virtual machines?
I use vim very much by choice. I'm not ignorant to what IDEs are and do, but I choose vim instead. I use version control. I use virtualization (with Vagrantfile for getting my development environment up) and I write tests with good coverage.
But because I use vim I get lumped in with people who never use version control?
About half the developers I know are using modern tooling (version control, IDEs, virtual machines images, testing tools, etc). The other half are very much in the 'ftp/notepad++' or maybe 'sublime text' camp.
Trying to convince people that they should be using version control even if they're the only developer on a project is usually like swimming through molasses.