Re:A Website for Learning Vim
by AnthonyMouse on Friday December 03, 2021 @01:53PM
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> Reminder: VSCode, Visual Studio, IntelliJ, and Notepad++ all individually have a higher usage share among professional programmers
This is an artifact of the structure of the question. They're not asking what you use the most, they're asking what you use at all. Check all that apply.
So then you check Notepad++ even if you're a Linux developer who primarily uses vim or emacs but have Notepad++ on your rarely used Windows VM. You check Visual Studio or VS code if you had to contribute to an existing project which is tied to its build system, even if you avoid it whenever possible.
A quarter of all developers use vim. That's not a small number and it's not for no reason.
This is an artifact of the structure of the question. They're not asking what you use the most, they're asking what you use at all. Check all that apply.
So then you check Notepad++ even if you're a Linux developer who primarily uses vim or emacs but have Notepad++ on your rarely used Windows VM. You check Visual Studio or VS code if you had to contribute to an existing project which is tied to its build system, even if you avoid it whenever possible.
A quarter of all developers use vim. That's not a small number and it's not for no reason.