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Re:Neovim by pjmlp on Saturday February 22, 2014 @05:45AM (#7281695)
Because many of the people that learned those old stuff were young when those tools were new and don't want to learn anything else.

Habits die very slow.

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Re:Neovim by Crito on Saturday February 22, 2014 @02:21PM (#7283202)
I'm not particularly old, but I prefer using tools that are considered "old". Furthermore from where I am sitting, there seems to be no shortage of older developers who are wed to the latest fancy IDE.

I don't think this is something that follows age lines. Whether or not somebody primarily has a background in the FOSS world or in the Windows universe is probably a much stronger indication of what sort of tools they use.

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Re:Neovim by pjmlp on Saturday February 22, 2014 @03:07PM (#7283381)
Well, I have a background in both.

Before getting my first UNIX contact, via Xenix in 1994, I was already fully comfortable with the GUI world of Amiga and later on PCs. Including GUI alternative environments like Smalltalk and Oberon.

So, although I do master the CLI, I rather spend my time in the cosy GUI world.

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Re:Neovim by AliceWonder32 on Saturday February 22, 2014 @11:58AM (#7282632)
And because the shell utilities are more versatile and often better.
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