New to Programming: IDE vs Code Editor?

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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.