Well, I like to compare Vim and IDE like Arch Linux and Ubuntu. Ubuntu works out of the box, and for Arch Linux you need to configure everything from almost scratch. But after the time you spend you get slim and fast machine configured for your needs.
As it is not possible to say which one is better, Ubuntu or Arch, since for everyone its different, the same way you can not tell what will be better for a particular person, vim or IDE.
Regarding Linux not standing out, I'm talking about containers, micro-kernel, next-gen file systems and so on. Look at Solaris or Plan 9 and you'll see that Linux is pretty late on many things.
My whole point is: if you love vim go for it, I don't care. But I personally think that it's not worth spending time learning this while there is muuuch simpler options out there and would certainly not recommend that to beginners.
That's why I said, for every particular user it is different and you cannot say which one is better. If you like IDE, than use it, if you like vim/emacs, then use vim or emacs. They all are tools after all, what matters is the code you write with them.
This post wasn't to convince people to use vim instead of an IDE, but for people who like vim, but don't use it foe missing certain features :)
Regarding vim being an editor from the early 90's:
Windows is an OS from 1985. MacOS from 2001. Linux, as mentioned above, is from 1991. If none of that means anything to you, how about this - InteliJ IDEA is an IDE from 2001. Sounds pretty outdated to me ;-).
My point is, you can't judge how outdated something is by its initial release, but by its latest release. Vim's latest release was literally 6 hours ago. And the one before that, 8 hours. The one before that was less than an hour before the next one. Far from being outdated, vim is in very active development.
Well, I like to compare Vim and IDE like Arch Linux and Ubuntu. Ubuntu works out of the box, and for Arch Linux you need to configure everything from almost scratch. But after the time you spend you get slim and fast machine configured for your needs.
As it is not possible to say which one is better, Ubuntu or Arch, since for everyone its different, the same way you can not tell what will be better for a particular person, vim or IDE.
Regarding portability of Linux, I mean this.
Regarding Linux not standing out, I'm talking about containers, micro-kernel, next-gen file systems and so on. Look at Solaris or Plan 9 and you'll see that Linux is pretty late on many things.
My whole point is: if you love vim go for it, I don't care. But I personally think that it's not worth spending time learning this while there is muuuch simpler options out there and would certainly not recommend that to beginners.
That's why I said, for every particular user it is different and you cannot say which one is better. If you like IDE, than use it, if you like vim/emacs, then use vim or emacs. They all are tools after all, what matters is the code you write with them.
This post wasn't to convince people to use vim instead of an IDE, but for people who like vim, but don't use it foe missing certain features :)
Regarding vim being an editor from the early 90's:
Windows is an OS from 1985. MacOS from 2001. Linux, as mentioned above, is from 1991. If none of that means anything to you, how about this - InteliJ IDEA is an IDE from 2001. Sounds pretty outdated to me ;-).
My point is, you can't judge how outdated something is by its initial release, but by its latest release. Vim's latest release was literally 6 hours ago. And the one before that, 8 hours. The one before that was less than an hour before the next one. Far from being outdated, vim is in very active development.
True enough :)