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Discussion on: VSCode vs Vim

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Jacob Colborn

I never used VIM as a full-blown editor. Back when I started using Linux I would use it to modify config and text files or write shell scripts. Back in those days, I was only learning programming at a very basic level (I was young). I would use the Python IDE when I first started learning because I used Python. When I tried to learn C++ I was able to use Code::Blocks, which was relatively new at the time. I abandoned programming after that.

By the time I started development again, it was already 2016. I started with learning game development using Unity. This came bundled with MonoDevelop which I enjoyed using for a month or two before an online tutorial used Visual Studio and I switched. When I took up web development a few years after that, I just naturally fell into VSCode. I'm so used to all of the shortcuts and the commands that come wrapped in VSCode and that I have created. The idea of switching to anything else is almost exhausting.