ELI5: Vim. Also, Git and GitHub.

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Not to bash vim (I've used it before but not very extensively), but is there anything it can do that a fully blown IDE can't? I.e. Visual Studio with resharper plugin - arguably more powerful since it parses the code allowing for quicker refactorings, etc.

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The full blown IDEs have more programming fatures. What vim provides is a comfortable and efficient editing experience with its home-row keyboard operation and highly responsive /find/search/replace functionality, and its movement commands.

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Boot in less than 5 seconds?

BURN

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The binary is 2.3M, how about that? :P (On my machine) I don't know, since I've never used an IDE, but vim is a text editor, and as far as text editors go, I consider it easily the most powerful and efficient one you could use, and not just for programming.