Try building a large webapp in vi and then comment. These days what you do is more important than what you use to do it, use vi or emacs or some shitty text editor, but eventually you need a real IDE with a GUI, vi is great, I love it, but it isn't the thing to be used for a large web app.
>ut why spew uninformed bullshit when any semi-knowledgeable linux/unix dev knows that vim and emacs run laps around vscode, sublime, etc
Because the rest of the entire world doesn't share your opinion.
if you really use vi for a large scale project then salute to you! I am fine with vscode, I want to get things done rather than learn my editor (read spend valuable time learning nooks and corners and the million shorcuts which I'd have rather spent on building my application product or startup)
>vim and emacs are much more powerful and flexible than eclipse, intellij, visual studio or other similar crap.
Nice claim, now do you have data to back up your claim? Meanwhile let me ask you a few quick questions.
Okay, how do you automatically organise imports in emacs?
Can you jump to the declaration of an expression with just pressing one button? How do you extract functions or values quickly without having to fiddle around with copy paste? If you use a language with type inference can you quickly view the inferred type by pressing a single button?
Yes. There are plugins for all of this. When I was using Emacs, I could use omnisharp to navigate files using, yes, one button. There are refactoring tools for emacs as well, though I'm usually fine with just using multiple cursors (also a plugin) so I haven't tried them out.
All my billable work the last 3 years have been with Emacs (ok, except for the last month, that has been Atom). I have never missed the functionality of an IDE.
>ut why spew uninformed bullshit when any semi-knowledgeable linux/unix dev knows that vim and emacs run laps around vscode, sublime, etc Because the rest of the entire world doesn't share your opinion.
if you really use vi for a large scale project then salute to you! I am fine with vscode, I want to get things done rather than learn my editor (read spend valuable time learning nooks and corners and the million shorcuts which I'd have rather spent on building my application product or startup)
I even wrote a short tutorial about writing webapps in golang: http://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textbook...
all thanks to vscode + go plugin