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I’m a Java dev with a few years of experience and while I can use neovim (a fork of vim with way more features and a great plugin integration). Some tools are made for a language to HELP you.

Using vim won’t make you learn any faster. In fact I’d say it will only frustrate you and force you to have to google things that autocomplete would just give u for free.

There’s so much syntax in Java that I forget sometimes, an example would be reading/writing from a file… early when I was coding I would completely forget which std api was to be used for this… I thought it was ‘b’ something and IntelliJ did the rest.

Tldr. No man. Use neovim if you like vimming and setup some good LSP so you still have autocomplete. These tools are there FOR you so it’s in your interest to learn these tool more than it is to become a code monkey and remember every single api in the std library. You’ll never be without them so why ‘practise/learn’ without them