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What is the best text editor? (Using Science)

Michael on June 30, 2020

vim

Prime I would actually like to see a side-by-side performance analysis of people who use vim vs intellij or something. Like an actual experiment. take a control group of devs who just started using intellij vs vim, measure the learning curve, and 2 months in final measure to see which one is better.

Thomas Dillard • Jun 30 '20 • Edited

tooling.report, but for code editors.

Gyudong-Han • Jul 1 '20 • Edited

vim is always right ...

Mike H • Jun 30 '20

Can confirm. I may not be a scientist, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn once.

Richard Tong • Jun 30 '20

facts

Eljay-Adobe • Jul 1 '20

I used emacs for years. Challenged by a co-worker, he switched from vim to emacs, and I switched from emacs to vim for several weeks.

At the end of the challenge, he immediately went back to vim, and I never went back to emacs.

Seanmclem • Jul 1 '20

I use a hammer and chizzle on a stone tablet. Everyone else is ridiculous.

Steven Doss • Jul 1 '20

vim....ual Studio Code.

David Paul • Jun 30 '20

Where is the nano option?

Ben Sinclair • Jul 1 '20

Get back to the evil beard universe.

Genesis • Sep 18 '23

Hey Michael,
I appreciate your article.

Thank You for writing.

New to typing ... you like bold?

Contributor to java here.

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Timothy Cole • Jul 1 '20

yeah, this is true

gabriel-viviani • Jul 1 '20

I've recently moved from vscode to vim to python dev (yes you guys heard it) and I'm more and more in love with that, still finding best setup but it's AWESOME!!