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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

@dotmatrices

2d ago

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@isbiltur

Congrats, this is super impressive! Not sure what you work with exactly but how do you handle debugging? And don't your coworkers get annoyed when you collaborate? I think those would be my obstacles. I use vim as a quick text editor and for simple scripting but nothing beyond that. Also, just fyi, VSCode is actually open-source (Microsoft still sucks)

2d ago

@dotmatrices

@ISBILTUR ik vscode is open source but the microsoft install has a bunch of telemetry and also it is also quite slow and bloated separately from that. i looked into vscodium but i figured if i was going to switch editors i should just take the dive into nvim i have very rarely used vscode's built-in debugging features and i don't find myself missing them. i do most of my work in ts and rust and the compiler warnings for both of them are good enough for me. i don't have coworkers lmao i work freelance - i collaborate on some open-source projects, but none of them are dependent on vscode and most of the people i work with on those use neovim (or helix / normal vim / some other secret third thing)

2d ago

@taterhole

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2d ago

@dotmatrices

@TATERHOLE no literally

2d ago

@taterhole

I need images in comments now more than ever

2d ago

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