Re:Ask HN: How do you sync your computer’s development confi...
by allarm on Thursday May 26, 2022 @01:55PM
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> vim is useless without any plugins
It’s not? I mean vim defaults are great, it supports a lot of formats out of the box (indentation, syntax highlighting), it’s ideal for quick edits. Surely if you need an IDE-like functional then it’s not enough (probably) but it is very far from being useless without plugins.
I don't use any plugins for PyCharm or IntelliJ, but they're pretty full-featured right out of the box. I certainly don't do it as a badge of honor, that indeed is pretty silly.
But vim is useless without any plugins. Even VSCode is only marginally better than Notepad++ unless you give it the plugins necessary to turn it into an actual IDE and not just a code editor.