Unlike VSCode, Emacs and Vim have a learning curve. And turning them into full blown IDEs makes their usage even more complex.
> Sublime
Sadly, Sublime is sort of dead.
> TextMate
TextMate: Text editor for macOS
Sublime has ongoing development on https://www.sublimetext.com/dev and the last major release (4) was just about a year ago.
I'm still rocking SLT 3, and it's my go-to for large file handling or just as a simple scratchpad, but development (of SLT) feels like it moves at a snails pace.
Everything works just the same, and I don't get the purchase pop-ups.
This is how it's always been I think; their model.
That's not the point, we were talking about plugins.
Installing an extension on vim (never done emacs) is something that does not just happen easily. There is no intuitive search for extensions built in, you likely have to install software that manages your plugins.
VSCode on the other hand rarely requires more than a single click through a built in interface.
The plugin ecosystem exists for command line editors, but it definitely has a learning curve
I personally do not use any of these package managers and instead use my systems package manager on Gentoo to manage everything. Gentoo has most of the popular projects in the ::gentoo repo under app-emacs, and packaging your own is only a few lines of bash.
In Emacs/Vim I can't even escape the program if I don't know a keyboard shortcut.
In Vscode even if I forgot Cmd+W/Q I can simply click the close button. Not to mention that all the shortcuts are just globally used shortcuts in all the other software.
While I respect praising by the community of Vim/Emacs, I really don't think it's beginner-friendly.
So anyone starting a software career virtually picks Vscode, gets used to it, and almost has no reason to switch to something else for now unless they need something extremely specific.
there is a close button in emacs. however unlike vscode, emacs can also run in the terminal
> So anyone starting a software career virtually picks Vscode, gets used to it, and almost has no reason to switch to something else for now unless they need something extremely specific
can be said about windows too. i started off on windows and jetbrains. today im on minimal linux, stumpwm as window manager, and emacs for everything except browsing. i find it very liberating having cut down my dependencies without having cut down functionality
Or, you know, you could just click on the File menu and click on Quit.
The rare time I use vscode instead of neovim I always end up with a lot of random characters into the code and have to close it without saving for fear of having broken something. You call that user friendly?
User friendly is what most users find it easy to use.
Your argument is more on the lines that you are a legacy user who does't want to move.
The whole idea of using vim/emacs was when intellisense/autocomplete was in its infancy. And programming general required using typing skills as a autocomplete mechanism. The only real use of all that edit-commands-as-a-mini-language philosophy of vim is to write keyboard macros. Which again was needed because people lacked decent autocomplete features. Besides typing fast itself isn't connected to coding productivity these days.
With emacs this is a feature, not a bug ;)
have you seen the extent of available emacs packages? maybe it is a learning curve for a person who just learned how to power on a computer but i find emacs soo much more approachable
