Didn’t know “the” core maintainer of vim has passed. But very nice to hear community has rallied to keep the project alive despite losing such a key person.

In the race to incorporate AI in everything, it has turned me away from tools such as VSCode, IntelliJ. Instead have reverted to use of vim/nvim, setting up my own development environment, customizing it to my liking with desired mappings, and enhancing with plugins on an as needed basis.

Even with all of my customizations, code completion is still snappy (since it’s lazily loaded), and I do feel more productive compared to GUI editors.

Only downside is collaboration with coworkers that have always learned to use a GUI editors. In those cases I just open up whatever text editor corp uses (most cases it’s just vscode).

Although for co-workers I dislike, I do love to see them struggle to use vim.