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0 pointscopperx9y ago0 comments

> Given Vim powers our industry

I hope that you're being sarcastic.

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Nope. The only other popular editors I've seen people using is either Sublime which, although highly configurable, just ain't no vim; or, all the emacs users, with emacs being the only real competitor to vim. I didn't mean what I said as a slight to emacs users at all, I respect them and their editor, I'm just a huge vim fan.

Also, the same with Java only being used with Java IDEs, C# only being used with Visual Studio is also a notable exception to my "vim all the things" rule.

vbezhenar9y ago

Probably different people have different views on the industry. I never saw anyone (but me) using vim. Programming: Eclipse, Intellij Idea. Administration: notepad, sometimes notepad++. For Linux it's KEdit or GEdit, depending on environment, I saw nano once. vim or Emacs are popular among enthusiasts, but for many professionals who's just makes living on it, those are gimmicks from ancient era.

I spent quite a lot of time mastering vim. It's beautiful editor and I could be incredibly productive with it, but I'm not sure that there are many people who'll do that.

riboflava9y ago

Every so often someone will do a "what editor do you use?" poll here, vim is the top choice. Maybe it's not the most common in the industry, especially if you include the hordes of Java or C# only developers, but at least among HN devs it's the #1 pick.

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vertex-four9y ago

Atom is reasonably popular, and Visual Studio Code is getting there.

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