Vim is Simply Fantastic!
Vim is the primary code editor used for all of our backend development. While VSCode is used on the front end, the developers for the …
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What is Vim?
Vim is an open source configurable text editor.
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Vim is an open source configurable text editor.
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The most common users of Vim are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Vim has become the go-to text editor for users across various domains. With its quick and efficient editing capabilities, many users consider Vim their primary text editor and daily driver. Non-technical users find value in Vim's ability to reformat spreadsheet-style data into multiple lines with a non-standard delimiter, while developers rely on it for making quick edits to files like .bash_profile or editing text directly on Linux-based servers. Although its prevalence has decreased with the adoption of continuous deployment, Vim remains an indispensable tool for configuration management and development teams when debugging deployed software on servers. Additionally, Vim is widely used as a convenient editor in remote Linux servers where a full development environment may not be available. The streamlined text entry and manipulation capabilities of Vim make it the preferred choice for many programmers and network engineers when editing text files. Despite the learning curve, some users consider Vim their dream editor due to its potential for efficient text editing and coding speed. Moreover, Vim enables shared development workflows such as pair programming by providing a consistent Tmux/Vim setup on shared development machines.
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January 02, 2024
Vim is Simply Fantastic!
- Vim is free
- Vim is ridiculously powerful
- Vim is fast
April 27, 2020
Lighting fast editor with a steep learning curve
- Steep learning curve means lower than average efficiency at the beginning.
- After getting familiar, it is so efficient that you will never want to use other editors.
- Good return on investment for serious editor/developers, may not be good for casual ones.
January 23, 2020
VIM is the ultimate text editor!
- Less time spent editing.
- More consistent edits.
November 12, 2019
Worth the learning curve
- Anecdotally, it has increased developer efficiency. This is hard to quantify but I know that I would personally write software slower in any other text editor.
- Since it's a free and open-source tool, the only investment is developer time in learning it.
- Workflows like remote pairing are much easier with terminal-based editors, which can decrease friction when collaborating.
October 12, 2019
The only text editor you'll ever need!
- The enhanced productivity that using Vim results in is fantastic. There is no need to roll out any text editor on the myriad of servers of we in order for config files to be read/written. Moreover, by standardizing on Vim, we know that everybody will know exactly how to access the text files
- There are no security loopholes to using Vim that I know of. So having a tool that won't result in your system being exploited is a huge ROI in today's environment
August 23, 2019
Vim - Thinking With Text
- There is a hefty time investment in getting up to speed on Vim, but in the long run the efficiency can make up for and surpass any lost productivity
- Free and open source.
- Available on nearly every platform imaginable.
- Vim has probably saved some people some time. It did not cost anyone money, though, so the ROI is positive.
- I use Vim multiple times a day every day. Without it, I'd be significantly slower at my job.
- Because it's free and open source, the only downside to Vim is the lost productivity you'll have in learning it, a loss that you'll make up for in efficiency pretty quickly later on.
June 12, 2019
Vim Review
- It always increases productivity.
- Sometimes feature discovery is not easy. It could be documented well like how to install a plugin and if it supported well or not.