It didn't take three years to get productive. It probably took a few months before I was fully productive, and that was while learning a new language and new codebase at the same time.
It's taken 3 years to get, not just comfortable and familiar but, beyond comfortable with Vim. It's taken 3 years for Vimming to become second nature. Actually, that's not true. I was typing Vim commands into my browser at the start of the year, so it's probably more like two years.
And that's not even 100% solid use. Last year, I used a lot of IntelliJ, VSCode, and Eclipse, but using Vim 1-2 days a week kept me in the habit enough that it's second nature to me.
I'm honestly glad it's working for you. The point of my original post was to talk to new users of Vim. You're quite well established with Vim so it's easy to have the opinion that it's not too difficult to use. However, I believe there are better options that enable people to be just as productive in a fraction, of a fraction of the time.
Good luck.
You explicitly called it an IDE.
> It took three years to learn to use Vim to be productive, is what you're saying here. Point and case.
They didn't say that. Anyone without sever learning difficulties should be as productive in vim as any text editor in a few days at most, it just takes years to master because it's capable of so much.
I called it an editor that I made into an IDE. It operates no different than the most powerful IDEs available for the languages listed.
> Anyone without sever learning difficulties
Now you're just being rude.
I never said it was an IDE. At least, I never intended to say it was, because it's not.
> And now, after 3 years of learning, and tweaking, and practising, I get Vim.
It took three years to learn to use Vim to be productive, is what you're saying here. Point and case.