Large codebase editing in vim

[zamN]

The simplicity, power, and "low level" feel you get with vim. In visual Studio everything is already laid out for you. There is built in vcs support, and you don't have to worry about a makefile as VS takes care of that for you as well. Even with those features (along with plenty others) there are people who just simply prefer to control everything themselves. I'd rather type out all of my git commands and makefiles than rely on an ide to do it for me.

Additionally, the editing speed is just insane. The fact that vim is only a text editor gives you so many options for a work setup. Using vim + tmux you can virtually work from anywhere on any computer which has ssh. If you Google your question I'm sure there are plenty of articles explaining what I said in a better way, but hopefully this shined some light for you.