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I'll stick to an IDE. Modern IDEs are sophiscated enough that a Vim/Emacs newbie user probably needs years of practice and tons of plugins to match and go over its capabilities. I think Vim makes a lot of sense when 1) the machine doesn't have a proper IDE, and 2) you really do a lot of programming every day and you are young, like in 20s, so you can amortize the cost for longer time.

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3) You get joy from tweaking and heavily customizing your editing environment (as I do).

4) You also learn a ton while trying out different ways to create your own development environment

It could well be. I actually enjoyed these kind of things back then.

I’ve continued to enjoy it for 10+ years (30+ if we’re talking generally and not just vim).

I am making a game. I use Vim (infinitely faster and more product than other text editors) and write a single command in my terminal to compile. Vim makes a lot of sense when you want to work fast and don't want bloated development toolchains to slow you down. There's nothing in modern IDEs that would increase my productivity that I can't add to Vim in about 5-20 minutes.

Just curious do you plan to open source or sell it? WOuld love to see other's game.

I think I'll have an alpha/beta testing period with interested volunteers. Then hopefully sell it. Then after some years and waning interest, probably open source it.

Thanks it's good to know.

I’m also an IDE fan, but I love vim plugins for text navigation. For editing a bunch of files like text, I’m likely using vim.

But for doing proper application work, refactoring, debugging — I’m with you. I might be good at vim but gdb is a whole different beast.

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