It's always been like this. Vim is an editor, and so is Sublime Text, Emacs, VS Code, Geany, Kate, Notepad++, and more. What sets vim apart is its ubiquity (it's been on every Linux box I touched) and its philosophy of editing text (modal editing). Apart from that, it's a matter of preferences and practicality.
Re:LazyVim
by slowmovintarget on Monday July 17, 2023 @08:50AM
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Emacs is a lisp environment, with an editor housecoat on.
You can run Neovim on a remote server through ssh. I think that's the main difference
VSCode can do that with the remote extensions.
The output of both tools is practically the same thing.
The niche of things Vim can do and VS Code can't is tiny and constantly decreasing.