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Discussion on: VSCode vs Vim

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Gayan Hewa

Both are really good. I have ventured across all three lands including emacs, vim and vscode. The amount of time we can kill optimizing the configuration with vim and emacs is just 🤯 (both in a good and bad sense at the same time). Now while I get older, I realized that I don't have the time to tweak stuff until wee hours in the night. Having to manage time between work, family and my self. So these days , what ever gets me productive soon is my tool of choice. I might use vim to edit files and have a basic configuration that work out of the box. VSCode for majority of the other work purely because I work across PHP, Typescript, JavaScript, Ruby, Go and with Terraform. It just saves the time I have to configure the editor.

So this is just my circumstances and how I opt to use the little time I have available. It was a completely different ball game a decade ago for me.

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katy lavallee

I didn’t find VSCode to be that great without a similar amouint of configuration.

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Gayan Hewa

Possible. But most of the extensions work pretty fine out of the box.