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Even coming from .NET/VS, I don't see why opening an editor was a big deal. You do it once day/week when using a big IDE. Having a quickly opening text editor matters more when editing one-off files. And a .NET workflow doesn't involve opening single files. You work on multiple projects in a Solution that you waiting for 20 seconds to open when you started your work week/day.

Ah, of course. Well in that case, I can see why Vim is a massive upgrade compared to what he was used too. Sort of reminds me of a time when I used Eclipse for a while, horribly slow editor that tonnes of people used to use (still used widely for Java development, specifically Android).

Don't forget Python, C/C++, and PHP!

Yes, that was the background. Vim vs Sublime just boils down to personal taste both are awesome editors.

But... when you compare either to VS ... well startup time is not its strong point, just launched my old VS 2010 copy and it took 5 seconds.

VS is really neat if you're doing C# dev, but yeah slow as heck to startup. It takes nearly a minute from a cold start on my windows dev machine, and 30s on warm start (has recently been closed). And this machine is a beast.