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Oleksii Filonenko

I started using Vim 6 years ago, and spent 2 quality years with it. I had a heavily modded config with tons of plugins for everything. At some point, I wanted to do my own customisations, and VimScript didn't strike me as an amazing language (at least back in the day).

Then I went from Spacemacs to Doom Emacs, and I'm currently switching between Doom Emacs on Linux and VS Code on Windows.

Emacs gave me the degree of freedom I wanted from my editor, and for some of the plugins (like Magit <3), I can't find a replacement anywhere.

For me, VS Code wins in terms of LSP support (rust-analyzer works amazingly well with it) and how easy it is to get going with on a new machine (yay Preferences Sync!), but there's still a lot to be desired.

And of course, Vim bindings everywhere, that's out of the question.