Because it looks good on r/unixporn ;-)

But more to the point - it fits with many keyboard only work flows and/or tiling WMs (i3, awesome, etc). At least that's what it's good in it for me. One less context switch.

Don't those reasons also soy to browsers? My tiling window manager is perfectly capable of tiling browser windows. Browsers like Firefox and Chrome can be controlled fully by keyboard, even very comfortably with the right extension.

When work is in a terminal, and hacker news it's in a browser, it's probably a good thing that there's a context switch between them.

I've been reading HN on vim for a while.

Sometimes I just want to kill some time while code compiles/tests run. This way, HN is just on a different split pane, and I can stop browsing as soon as the other job is finished.

Besides learning purposes, I built it because I spend most of my time in a Terminal window.