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Juan F Gonzalez

Vim is the grandfather of all text editors. It's the things that most people talk about either by being full supporters or by being scared by all its complexities. But is IMO the #1 thing that would enable a great shift in productive output for devs of any kind.

It's funny, coming from me as a front-end UI dev, that I have so much appreciation for a tool that doesn't even have a graphical interface, BUT I have seen a great improvement in my "coding fu" after I started learning it.

I'm far from experienced in the skill of VIM but even at knowing the 10% of what's possible, I had some great returns on my invested time and pairing it up with VSCode shortcuts I can code at work and write articles at a similar speed of what I saw others doing before I started working as a professional developer.

That's it. Drop the mic.