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saberiencetoday at 1:01 PM1 replyview on HN

Vim has a terrible user experience though. There's a reason everyone stopped using it as soon as they possibly could and moved to other text editors. Now the only vim users are the 60 year old+ greybeards who try to convince everyone they're such morons for not using it.

Stop trying to convince people to use vim, it sucks, it's got a terrible ux, it's not intuitive, it's overly complicated, hard to learn, arcane, and looks like ass.


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delichontoday at 2:50 PM

I disagree, but I'm a 60 year old+ greybeard who has managed to get a bunch of other devs addicted to vim. My real goal is to keep the key bindings popular enough that I won't have to reprogram my muscle memory before I shuffle off.