Dear HN community, since there are quite some comments highlighting the effectiveness of a good VIM setup and muscle memory of 10+ years, I would like to know your opinion on starting to get into it now (end of 2022). For context: I’m a backend developer with 10+ years of experience, mostly using Java IDEs, and lately some vscode (for go, typescript, rust). I have some knowledge in vim, and can use it for basic text editing, but I still use the arrows for navigation, and found the “hjkl” navigation difficult. I’m somewhat experienced using linux and the terminal, and would be curious to dig deeper into more terminal-based workflows. The question is: do you think it’s worth the effort to learn using VIM more deeply today? The goal would be to at least be able to do the go and rust coding in vim, it doesn’t need to be a full Java IDE. Bonus points for an opinion about “If yes, do you think VIM is still fine, or rather neovim? Or something fresh like helix?” Thanks a lot!
Story Published at: December 13, 2022 at 10:12AM
Story Published at: December 13, 2022 at 10:12AM