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I used most of the so called IDEs for 10 years, switched to vim+tmux 3 years ago and won't go back.

In those 3 years I spent 3-5 hours in total configuring my .vimrc to make it work exactly as I want.

I can compare directly my productivity using Vim and other IDEs and I'm like 50% more productive using Vim.

I don't think that calling them "so called IDEs" is very helpful to the conversation. I am someone that uses vs code and vim and they are both very good at different things. Furthermore, the lines are even more blurred because vs code has an integrated terminal thats just a keyboard shortcut away. The line between terminal and "GUI" editor is not as clear cut as it once was. I did basically all my sysadmining at my last job for a year just in a web browser and VS code. Was sshing into machines and running vim to edit config files all through the integrated terminal in vs code, and it was pretty nice to have an open snippets file to paste commands into the terminal. Some people just wanna do some computing right now to solve problems and dont wanna tinker with learning vim. Its got a learning curve, and when you just need to run some R or Python functions against a production dataset to get your project done, I cant imagine that you would really wanna drop everything to set up vim right then. IDE's allow people to get working on problems quickly and they accomplish that task.

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