I’ve used vim, and I didn’t like it. That is the definition of an opinion.

Seems like I struck a chord. I get this same response anytime vim comes up in a thread. Its almost as bad as the linux gatekeeping. Apparently I’m not allowed to have an opinion that differs from the group.

How is this a lazy argument? Most people dont use Fortran, Cobol, or Assembly anymore for the same reason. There are better alternatives out there.

Because they grew up with it? I cant think of any other reason. I used it in college for a class bcz my old as fuck professor required it. Its obtuse, old, and doesn’t have a lot of functionality of modern code editors.

The only people who want to use it are people who started with it decades ago, or people who were forced to use it, and now think they’re superior somehow to everyone else who doesn’t use it.

No! Thats socialism! insert explicitives and unhinged rant

Oh no, I get why they don’t know what one is. It just makes teaching coding to them very difficult.

And now the kids don’t know what a file path is anymore. Legit my wife is a professor, and she gets adeer in the headlight look when she is helping students debug code and she mentions a file path not being right in there code.

Serious response, no joke… what’s a file path?

These are sophomores and Juniors in college.

What’s worse is they’re actively rooting for climate change as it starts to get worse.