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It's kinda embarrassing, JB wants to push their new editor, but even months after public beta, the vim emulator is still barely usable, and afaict it's maybe like 1-2 people working on this.

I don't get it, if you are targeting developers, why is it that having Vim keybindings not a top priority? Or am I living in my own circle?

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/FL-10664

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In my experience anyone using something other than VSCode, or Major IDE is a noteworthy signal that the developer cares about their tools and is probably better than the median.

There's an interesting blog post from a recruiting company breaking down the data they have on editors and developer success in their interview process. https://triplebyte.com/blog/technical-interview-performance-...

You may very well be living in your own circle. My anecdata is that most engineers use VSCode these days. In my current organisation I am the only person that uses Emacs that I am aware of (and I use evil-mode). I know a handful of people use (n)vim. But by far the most common editor I see being used is VSCode.

I work on a frontend team, most of my coworkers use VSCode and very few use the vim plugin for it. On our backend teams I believe IntelliJ is still the most popular editor, it’s really uncommon to find anyone using vim or eMacs for work.

Personally I just use Jetbrains IDEs w/ IdeaVIM for most things because I can’t be bothered with all the plugins and configurations I would rather my IDE just work out the box in any language.

My thinking is, if you focus heavily on letting your editor be a client for Neovim, you now can pull in all the stubborn VIM users easily. "Look! It behaves the most like vim that any editor you've ever used does!"

I fully agree with you. I'm not sure why they're asleep at the wheel.

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