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in recent years because of the Political Climate i have become very paranoid about using proprietary corporate technology and have been trying to transition everything i can to open-source and / or self-hosted alternatives. the problem is that i have been a vscode (microsoft 😡) user for almost ten years now.
i have long been jealous of those 60 year old vim guys who can type faster than i can think, but every time i've tried to dive in myself i completely bounced off - as someone who has spent my entire life using conventional text editors it was like giving myself a frontal lobotomy. but a few months ago i decided that i was gonna stop being a little bitch baby and actually try to make the jump to neovim - and it has been a brutal, long, and arduous journey, but i've finally reached the summit, and i (1) am extremely proud of myself and (2) finally understand what everyone's been going on about all these years.
i finally "get" it. i've linked the no boilerplate video that finally sold me, but the gist of it is that vim is really unmatched as an editor. i can manipulate text at a speed and precision far beyond anything that i could do in VScode, and i can do it all without having to pick up the mouse (and aggravate my carpal tunnel)! as a bonus i get to pretend that i'm using one of those terminals in the matrix. i dropped the vscode executable in my trash today and i'm not going back
i have long been jealous of those 60 year old vim guys who can type faster than i can think, but every time i've tried to dive in myself i completely bounced off - as someone who has spent my entire life using conventional text editors it was like giving myself a frontal lobotomy. but a few months ago i decided that i was gonna stop being a little bitch baby and actually try to make the jump to neovim - and it has been a brutal, long, and arduous journey, but i've finally reached the summit, and i (1) am extremely proud of myself and (2) finally understand what everyone's been going on about all these years.
i finally "get" it. i've linked the no boilerplate video that finally sold me, but the gist of it is that vim is really unmatched as an editor. i can manipulate text at a speed and precision far beyond anything that i could do in VScode, and i can do it all without having to pick up the mouse (and aggravate my carpal tunnel)! as a bonus i get to pretend that i'm using one of those terminals in the matrix. i dropped the vscode executable in my trash today and i'm not going back
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