Comments by "Toby" (@toby9999) on "Vim Won't Make You MORE Productive" video.

  1. Yeah, it sucks for real work. Probably ok for single file toy projects, or for tinkerers.
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  2. ​ @ImperiumLibertas It might be a great editor, but that's only covering 1% of a developer's day. 99% is doing other stuff (that Vim can't do). It's akin to optimising too early. Jumping through hoops cut a ms of the execution time of a process that runs for 10 minutes.
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  3. Yeah, mastering tools is important. mastering Vim is not. As for 1999... I'd go further back. There were already good GUI based tools in the 1980s.
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  4. A mouse uses less brain power per action. That's why it's more efficient.
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  5. People who believe Vim makes people more productive are deluded. Arguing Vim vs. not understanding how things work under the hood is a false dichotomy. One could learn the under the hood stuff in a 1000 different ways. Jumping between files the way you showed is far from great. It's nuts.
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  6. The makes sense. But I would differentiate software development vs. text editing.... The appropriate tools are IDEs and Text editors, respectively. In the same way, we'd use a word-processor for complex document creation, a spreadsheet for calculations in tabular form and image software for editing images. Using a text editor for large scale software development is a form of self inflicted trauma.
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  7. I've been writing software for 45 years, and I've never needed any of that stuff. My first computer was build by hand by myself and coded in hex (machine code), that, all the way up to being a professional C++ developer for the past 28 years. And never touched react. Never want to. Not that or any other web crap.
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