Why I Still Use Vim

Re:Why I Still Use Vim by pluma on Thursday January 04, 2018 @04:51AM (#16069095)

I'm on a laptop. I'm half joking about the 32 gigs thing -- I do have 32 gigs but even with all the messengers (including multiple copies of Slack), a development server with a 4 gig database, a browser and two instances of VSCode open I barely scratch 11 gigs in use.

I'm a web developer. 90% of my work happens either in an editor, a browser or the shell. So yeah, VSCode's memory use doesn't really matter.

If you think Sublime comes anywhere close to VSCode in terms of features you haven't really given it a try. The code intelligence alone was worth the switch and perf-wise I see no practical difference in day to day use.

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Re:Why I Still Use Vim by lvoudour on Thursday January 04, 2018 @05:37AM (#16069271)

> If you think Sublime comes anywhere close to VSCode in terms of features you haven't really given it a try.

Granted, but features have nothing to do with the issue here (wasting resources). Microsoft could have easily offered the same feature set with a different implementation. I have visual studio at work with 7 projects loaded and it sits at a comfortable 400 MB

If your laptop is your work system, it makes sense to have something powerful that costs a few grand. But then personally I'd pay a few extra and get a full featured IDE, why bother with text editors?

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