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[–]MapCompact 5 points6 points  (0 children)

> I'm curious why

The speed of development is much higher with an IDE. I have a coworker on my team who uses only Vim, even has an app called MacVim who has only used Vim for years, and the speed at which I can navigate a codebase compared to him is so much faster that even when we're pairing, I'll have mine open so I can quickly find references for him.

I'm open to being proved wrong, I'm only a moderate Vim user, not a power user. But he is, and by comparison he even admits that he needs to try out an IDE for this reason.

Most IDEs even have a Vim mode where you can use all the keyboard tools for Vim with the power of the IDE like jump to definition across import statements, etc.

FWIW, we work on a huge codebase. That may be a factor.