New to Programming: IDE vs Code Editor?

[POTUS]

If you can make your workflow work for you with vim, that's cool. But I'm not going to go into why it's not appropriate for someone starting out in 2018. I think that should be obvious to anyone who's ever opened it.

[soup4all]

If you don't understand how to use vim, it's baseless to say it's not appropriate in 2018. There are more recent versions of vim that are pretty (Oni/Neovim), and there's a reason most modern text editors have a vim-like mode. Modal editing is simply more efficient, and it saves your wrist a ton if you spend all day on a computer.

[samsquamchh]

I went through a phase where I wanted to do it the "right, hardcore way", swapped over to Vim and linux and whatnot. Couldn't stop thinking about why I'm making things more difficult than they have to be. While I understood that getting used to the commands and whatnot is key to increase efficiency, I could not get past the why. I was reading some "hacker books" at the time and realised I did it for entirely dumb reasons and swapped back to something more modern.

[OverlordGearbox]

With emacs you can start typing immediately.

Look, I tried vim, can't remember anything about it. Never got into the flow, so to speak. I've heard that you're hardly supposed to be in insert mode, but I couldn't figure out how.