It does not do the same thing as my hammer. Not even close. As a matter of fact, with Vim you cannot get even half the functionality of a good graphical IDE or even something like VSCode without drastically lowering your standards.
> Optimizing the wrong thing...at the expense of just about every other aspect of computing...
Vim lacks discoverability. That's the first major aspect of computing that Vim just completely throws out the window.
Speaking of windows - Vim also lacks integration with the rest of your graphical OS by default. You can't use your normal graphical file picker, you can't just drag files into Vim and you can't easily configure Vims activity to be reflected in the rest of your OS (in areas such as recently-edited-files and so on). Sure, you can get a graphical version of Vim, but now you have 2 problems - you have to configure different versions of Vim to use it the way you want to.
Even the mouse pointer a hallmark of modern computing, is largely useless in Vim!
Also, text-based configuration is throwing out another majorly useful aspect of computing: convenient and easy to access settings.
Anyway, if you enjoy editing text like it's 1976 - that's fine with me. Just don't try and tell me it's as good as my hammer because it simply is not.
It does not do the same thing as my hammer. Not even close. As a matter of fact, with Vim you cannot get even half the functionality of a good graphical IDE or even something like VSCode without drastically lowering your standards.
> Optimizing the wrong thing...at the expense of just about every other aspect of computing...
Vim lacks discoverability. That's the first major aspect of computing that Vim just completely throws out the window.
Speaking of windows - Vim also lacks integration with the rest of your graphical OS by default. You can't use your normal graphical file picker, you can't just drag files into Vim and you can't easily configure Vims activity to be reflected in the rest of your OS (in areas such as recently-edited-files and so on). Sure, you can get a graphical version of Vim, but now you have 2 problems - you have to configure different versions of Vim to use it the way you want to.
Even the mouse pointer a hallmark of modern computing, is largely useless in Vim!
Also, text-based configuration is throwing out another majorly useful aspect of computing: convenient and easy to access settings.
Anyway, if you enjoy editing text like it's 1976 - that's fine with me. Just don't try and tell me it's as good as my hammer because it simply is not.