Re:Why I Still Use Vim
by jasonkester on Thursday January 04, 2018 @07:40AM
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The memory and start time complaints are a bit of a red herring. It's not like anybody is firing up a copy of VS.NET from scratch every time they want to edit a file.
In an IDE world, you fire up your environment once when you power on. For the next week or so until you reboot, opening a file is instant.
Granted, it uses memory in the background. But you have 32gb of it on your laptop. Keeping a couple of those in reserve to never have to edit code as though it were text seems like a fine trade off for those who choose to make it.
In an IDE world, you fire up your environment once when you power on. For the next week or so until you reboot, opening a file is instant.
Granted, it uses memory in the background. But you have 32gb of it on your laptop. Keeping a couple of those in reserve to never have to edit code as though it were text seems like a fine trade off for those who choose to make it.