I knew vim was old, but had no idea the lineage traced back 50 years. Vim has always felt like an exoskeleton suit compared to the spaceship dashboard of full-f

I knew vim was old, but had no idea the lineage traced back 50 years. Vim has always felt like an exoskeleton suit compared to the spaceship dashboard of full-fledged IDEs. You can also add plugins to gain most of the functionality of an IDE. It does have a blood price, some days I spend just as much time hacking on my vimrc/plugins as the actual code I opened vim for.