(ā¦Well I know itās on old topic butā¦ Iāve been here before checking what people said and now Iām back to give my own personal story.ā¦)
Iāve used Sublime Text for a while, then Atom most of the time, and tried VS Code for some weeks (after seeing all the hype everywhere about it).
- My thoughts on Sublime/Atom/VSCode -
All code editors mentioned before are very good, and almost the same where it comes to features and usabilityā¦butā¦
Theyāre pretty much the same too when you talk about performance!
And sometimes their performances can irritates you!
Try to work on a large codebase, or multiple files opened, linters enabledā¦ Sometimes it can takes like 15 seconds only to open a file (on a pretty decent and new machine/hardware).
- Thatās why I decided to Learn VIM! -
Wellā¦ thereās nothing to say about VIM performance!! Itās waaaay faster than those editors mentioned before! And you can bet on itā¦ turn on a bunch of plugins and open a bunch of large codebases simultaneously, and youāll see no lazyness at all!
The reason that intimidates people to learn VIM is just the best part that Iām enjoying on the way.
Weāre all here learning, weāre all affictionated in optimizing stuff, create stuff to improve other peopleās lifes.
So why not investing a little bit of time to master a tool that will optimize your workflow A LOT and increase your productivity?
Well itād be so boring if there was nothing to learn, if there was no statusline for you Inpage Free Download, no .vimrc to set up every month after you discovering another cool feature, if there was no scripts to learn and build your own features or pluginsā¦
If you feel like giving it a shot, there are many free online resources helping you to learn VIM but the first step to try it out, is to open your console and type the command vimtutor.
Take 30/60 minutes to follow along the exercices and Iām pretty sure youāll finish it very excited to learn more!
There is a very nice book too that promise youāll master vim āā¦from WTF to OMG in no timeā¦ā , itās called Mastering Vim Quickly , and they offer some chapters and a newsletter for free. Even the free stuff will be fairly enough for you to learn many nice features.
After these months using VIM Iāve got so excited more and more, and then I decided to start writing VIM quick tips and tutorials to help VIM newbies, on a .
I Hope Iāve helped! Happy coding folks!