That's literally what I keep hearing since 30 years lol (for vi proper not vim, that is).
Please don't dismiss comments for grammar or spelling mistakes. These are not substantial criticisms of the argument being made, and are IMO a form of ad-hominem.
My own comment was precipitated by the sneering tone I read in (sic!)
Which itself points out a grammatical mistake unnecessarily. Then compounds this, by making a more egregious mistake.
Really my comment was making the same point. Don't point out grammatical mistakes, which is the precise purpose of (sic).
had a client once where its workers were day dreaming of a job in the valley and ofc they were using python. they bashed php on a daily basis, and as they were doing it, the php api was sole codebase running in production (essentially the company’s product) and running reliably for a few years.
the python workers were still struggling with basics such as queues and isc, and digging through non existent or vaguely written documentation. was a fun experience watching them struggle as i basically cloned repos, read the code or entry points for that code and get things shipped.
since then i started loving python. development is slower and my invoices keep coming. love it. occasionally i write some lib thats already been implemented in plenty of php and nodejs packages.
oh same client had a ruby codebase that kept failing and couldnt find devs to work on it. fun times.
most frameworks come either with examples or commands to get your started. symfony even had their docs available for local reading as well.
with python i always have to delve into reading obscure documentation that either makes no sense or is not up to date. and there are too few packages for what you normally need in a scalable app. so yeah you can write php code without googling, as long as you are not a complete noob in web development.
if its 2021 and you still write code using vim and niche languages then you are doing it wrong, and indeed google is your only hope.