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  • I don’t fit into any of those categories.

    Its obtuse, old, and doesn’t have a lot of functionality of modern code editors

    Obtuse? Yeah. The keyboard focus means natural discoverability is low. But I immediately preferred modal editing once I learned it.

    Old? Eh, most people use Neovim nowadays and write plugins in lua. Even in OG Vim, Vim9script broke compatibility for a better dev experience.

    Functionality? Out of the box, it is just a text editor. But only VSCode might have a more active plugin ecosystem. ALE has been a thing for ages if it’s LSP support you’re looking for.

    It’s not better, it’s not worse, I’m not in any way superior for using it, but I love it for a reason.









  • Taking courses which involve subjects that you will likely never encounter in the workforce is a thing in every discipline. Most engineers don’t need to manually solve differential equations in their day jobs, they just need to know that they exist and will often require numerical solutions.

    Getting your hands dirty with the content provides a better understanding when dealing with higher level concepts.