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Discussion on: First Month as a Professional Developer

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Aly Sivji

Thanks! You make some great points.

I definitely miss the comforts of my IDE and have spent a decent amount of time trying to get Vim to replicate a lot of that functionality. Really wish VSCode had better Vim keybindings! Right now I'm just experimenting with some new tools, we'll see how it goes over the next few months. =)

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Adrian B.G.

Experiments are key of knowledge evolution so you're great already.

Like in a relationship, don't enter one with the thought of changing the partner,it never ends well. VSCode shouldn't be use like VIM and vice versa, intellij also has vim mode but I heard is lacking too.

Also after many years I found that customizing too much an env made me more static, I could code at other computers without my keybindings and bash aliases, so I returned at the basics, now I'm using intellij keys in VSCode too and it doesn't fit so well, it has different windows and panels.

Change is hard to so for our brains, another side effect of ingesting too much time learning an environment is that we'll have a hard time leaving it. So find a balance , don't get emotional they are just tools, next year we may code in the air with the VR headsets.