Why I use Vim in 2022

Surprisingly asked quite a bit, why would I ever use vim in 2022 when there is so many options written in the 21st century, like vscode, intellij, sublime, ...

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[calapranzee]

I use vim just to confuse my collaborators. I love it.

[zahimeen]

You are the man who brought me to Vim and changed my perspective on programming. Thank you for your amazing content!

[JesseUnderscoreMartin]

I was so burned out at my last job. Starting to get apathetic.

Then I saw one of your videos, watched the dev hour with Theo, and have watched a lot of your skits since then. Now I'm reinvigorated and excited about programming again.

Thanks for the content!

[AmirHosseinHonardust]

You put it so well. I always think people are missing the point about the efficiency and shortcuts in vim. It's not about the productivity. It's about relying as much as much on muscle memory instead of user attention in order to preserve the flow of thought. When you are going through the GUI editors, it constantly disrupts your flow of thought. But in vim everything is muscle memory.

[hisamafahri]

The fact that your coworkers are the one introduced you to VIM is amazing. It proves you have really great work environments. 👍

[Yin-Hsun_Hung]

I know vim because my school teacher use it. And he told that we should learn vim. Then I found your vim series video. Thank you for bringing me to the vim world!!

[victorcostelini]

I had serious tendinitis, I was even considering switching careers because of it, and then I met Vim. I learned it thanks to your Vim As Your Editor series, and I literally can't go back to "normal" editing anymore.

[za_wavbit]

I took a similar path to vim: Lighttable -> Atom w/ vim plugin -> neovim with someone's config off GH that made it friendly for a newbie -> straight vim (when v8 dropped). I haven't felt the need to check out nvim again since I switched to plain vim, but it's cool to see all the work they're doing. Tom Ryder's excellent blog posts on Unix as an IDE (including Vim) were a great resource along the way. And I also wound up moving from FED to DevOps, so being able to use busybox's vi without a learning curve was really nice.

[matiasbpg]

My brother introduced me to vim name years ago, but i thought that was only for config files. It was only a little more than a year ago that I saw you coding in vim and saw all the possibilities. I now use vim as my only editor and can't be more happy about it

[jimigrunge]

I started vim when I got a job that required us to develop in a managed VM with no mapped drive. All editing had to be done IN the VM. The lag from typing to seeing the code change was driving me crazy. Then I saw someone SSH into their VM and use VIM and was blown away with how fast they were coding. I never turned back

[emmetallen]

Honestly, I started using VSCode Vim Plugin around a month ago after being a long time prime-lurker.

Now I realized to better foster my Vim/Developer learning, I need to switch to a Linux Distro as a primary driver. I feel it is the next logical step for any serious Developer, because Windows (and some degree Mac ) just don't give that extra 'umph' when it comes to developing.

Anyway, thanks Prime. You are one of the youtubers I idolize along with Luke Smith, Mental Outlaw, and Dave's Garage, and I really owe it to you for making programming (especially advanced programming) seem fun and extremely welcoming 🙂.

[earthling_parth]

I remember seeing your first video on your vim workflow and I was blown away by it. I used vim in a basic capacity as I started my career as a Linux systems administrator, but I never thought the dev workflow you have was even possible. Thank you Prime for nudging me towards neovim. I'm still learning my dev flow with it now, and boy do I feel _blazingly fast_ 😁

[talktothehand]

I'm gonna argue that vim also leveled up my "thinking" time when it came to programming. So much of that "thinking" time I find for me is really just reading other code. Fzf+ripgrep+go-to-definintion with an LSP let me read through code soooo much faster than I ever could before.

[supersmasher]

You introduced me to vim and I am loving it so much It’s just flowing from thought into code thank you 🙏

[marloelefant]

In the first programming lecture, the teacher opened vim in a command-line window on Linux and started typing. Shortly after, I was blown away by how efficiently it was. I immediately threw Windows into the rubbish, installed Linux and vim and am using them since then happily (and of course, exiting vim the first time is always a bit troublesome).

[scottiedoesno]

2 years in and I am rocking out with neovim, real programmer's dvorak, and a dactyl. You have defined a massive amount of my productivity flow that I simply could not live without.

[demolazer]

I've been introduced to emacs while learning lisp. There's something glorious about getting in the zone using all the keyboard shortcuts to switch buffers, run code, edit, etc. Reminds me of playing RTS games. I'm gradually leaning towards doing c and python in it too. I also have a plan to bind my entire numpad to open parenthesis so I can just smash my hand on the general area.

[fernanboxfrias]

Yoo hoo! Another Vim Video! Keep up uploading content like

[daddygromlegs]

I’m focusing all my time and effort on actually learning how to code, but man you’ve got me so hyped to jump into VIM from watching your streams and how efficient you are. You’re right, it literally is a superpower haha.

Can’t wait to join the cool kids club

[benjaminsanglitan]

I learned Vim because my old pc sucked so much especially when using electron-based editors with large codebases. Still sticked with Vim even with better hardware to code with. There's just something with Vim that makes me feel at home compared with other IDE"s and editors.

Thanks for your videos about Vim, I was able to quickly scaffold my personal configs that really suits my workflow.