So you’ve probably heard a thing or two on the web about mysterious vim tool and begin to wonder why would people use it when there are so many fancier alternatives. Don’t worry! In this article I’ll try to describe few pros of using vim.
To provide fast and concise answer, here are few reasons why you might want to be using vim:
- Learn it once, benefit for the rest of your life
- Remote servers
- Lightweight
- Portable
- Highly extensible and powerful
- Easily configurable
- Vim does what you tell it to do. no more no less.
Learn it once
There are plentiful of IDE’s to choose from. When you are coding in python there is PyCharm, for c++programmers probably Visual Studio or CLion, and Atom for… let’s say Vue. And there are many more IDE’s than those few I’ve listed. It’s good we have so many options, but the downfall when switching is having to learn each and every one of them from scratch, to finally reach mastery. And what should we do when there is another new ‘better’ IDE or when the old one stops being supported… you're damned to start learning from the beginning once again.