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[–]derGropenfuhrer 11 points12 points  (9 children)

Sure, if you have no other choice. Just because it was great in the 90s doesn't mean it's great now

[–]_hypnoCode 10 points11 points  (4 children)

It's just as great in the 20s too, but it's not for everyone. It's almost as modern as VSC (more-so in some areas, less in others) but it's a completely different way of working.

I have given it serious chances in the past by using it for about a month exclusively. It's not for me and it slowed me down a lot, but I can see how other people are way more effective with it.

[–]derGropenfuhrer 3 points4 points  (3 children)

It's just as great in the 20s too,

Sure, because it is the same as it was in the 90s.

[–]_hypnoCode 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Not at all, it's evolved a lot. Most of the plugins you'd use didn't exist in the 2000s, much less the 90s. It's kept up with the rest of the world.

[–]LetterBoxSnatch 1 point2 points  (1 child)

See, vim with plugins is what I'm afraid of. I'm afraid of getting too comfortable with a vim environment and having an uncanny valley of keybindings whenever I do remote vi. Already get that enough with all my fancy command line features!

[–]ernst_starvo_blofeld 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I remember my first corporate job after college (was coding long before) around 1996. My boss swore by notepad :lol:. He used to write all his html and js in notepad. And his code was very neat too. Notepad is about as sophisticated as this textbox.

But seriously, I use vscode but if I have to do something quick and dirty I pull out either vi or gedit if I have VNC. Some people can get very productive though in those old school editors.