My hot take: Vi, make and C would have gone the way of COBOL a long time ago if it wasn’t for a lot of programmers thinking “my tools are more difficult to use, hence I’m a better programmer”.
Yeah, its so much more interesting to edit code with only your keyboard. Always switching back and forth from mouse to keyboard is just too cumbersome.
Bonus points for Neovim: It made me understand my tools (LSP, linting, CLI tools, TUI etc…)
As a person uses neovim, make and exclusively programs in C I am indeed triggered. Maybe you could argue Make and C are hard but Vi definitely is not (atleast the basics aren’t).
I use the unholy IdeaVim and honestly… I love it. I won’t pretend that interacting with a heavy IDE while using vim is a great idea, but it makes editing so much more comfortable.
Also while you can use something like nano for editing files in the terminal, vi(m) is much faster for more in-depth editing.
My hot take: Vi, make and C would have gone the way of COBOL a long time ago if it wasn’t for a lot of programmers thinking “my tools are more difficult to use, hence I’m a better programmer”.
I agree with C and Make, not with vim/neovim though
I agree. You should use Neovim instead of Vi nowadays. :P
Yeah, its so much more interesting to edit code with only your keyboard. Always switching back and forth from mouse to keyboard is just too cumbersome.
Bonus points for Neovim: It made me understand my tools (LSP, linting, CLI tools, TUI etc…)
I am triggered by that statement.
vi lives on because it’s everywhere. On a remote machine and need to edit a file? vi is there.
As a person uses neovim, make and exclusively programs in C I am indeed triggered. Maybe you could argue Make and C are hard but Vi definitely is not (atleast the basics aren’t).
Vi, make and C are elegant beautiful tools, and the joy they will bring into your life will wait steadfast and pure in spirit until you discover it.
I use the unholy IdeaVim and honestly… I love it. I won’t pretend that interacting with a heavy IDE while using vim is a great idea, but it makes editing so much more comfortable.
Also while you can use something like nano for editing files in the terminal, vi(m) is much faster for more in-depth editing.