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> It reminded me of using VIM as an IDE - not an IDE, a big pile of stuff that isn't integrated.

I prefer to use Vim as a powerful editor, within Unix as my IDE.

same here, use it on the server and desktop, gave up on vscode one year ago, did not need my purchased jetbrains(webstorms etc) for 99% of the time.

vim rules for me, as a full IDE from the terminal.

out of curiosity what language do you write primarily?

I actually deal with a lots of code, c/c++/js/python/golang/lua/sql, guess what vim can be configured to work well for them all: autocomplete, syntax highlight, auto-format,etc. along with nerdtree, I rarely need mouse at all during coding.

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