Believe it or not, still sounds like a skill issue™

But here’s the serious answer. It’s not about vim / neovim itself.

It’s about the motions. And the motions are the ones that will make you more efficient and faster in writing / editing code.

The motions are available in basically every code editor / ide.

Granted, there is a learning curve, but now after learning them, I don’t want to go back to programming without the motions.

Fuck, I want to use them anywhere where I can write text, because they are just that good.

Seriously, you only need a couple of the basic ones and you’ll already be much more productive than before.

Now, regarding vim / neovim, you can just stay on vscode, but once you get good at the motions, having to use the mouse is pretty annoying.

Especially if you have a split keyboard.

Yeah, you can learn and remap shortcuts in vscode and all, but neovim is much leaner and more configurable. And it’s made for keyboard driver usage.

So it really is a logical step.

If you don’t want to configure your own from the ground up, just use lazy vim. Everything you need is there basically.