crazybigdan
Sort of like goodreads minus the blatant marketing.
Another key thing is the responsiveness. Vim is just more responsive (or it feels that way to me, you may have different experiences).
I am developing Java using vim + tmux at work and it for certain took a lot of time to get tweaked how I want it to be, and there are some things I've had to give up: debugging is a big one (but that's what log messages are for!), but I 've managed to cover quite some ground: I wrote a plugin to automatically add import statements based on dependencies you have listed in your build.gradle
Yeah I know the image (ooo that guy thinks he's sooo l33t because he uses vim and the command-line all the time... doesn't even need intellij installed!), but I know my setup works for me and it allows me to work as fast, if not faster than my peers and get. crap. done.
To each their own - I make sure that new engineers I'm on-boarding have tools they need to get work done and don't fall prey to some tool-cult.
In fact I recently snuck some perl code into production at my company a month or so ago: we needed an android app to post data to a backend where it could later be analyzed. Super simple. I wanted to get it out the door as fast as possible and due to the fact that it will be retired before the end of this year, I choose to write the backend in perl using MongoDB and Mojolicious. Then I saw that MongoDB is retiring their driver for perl[1]. I still went forward, but it was yet another reminder of the state the language is in.
It saddens me that perl does not get more love. It is a fantastic language but I can not justify teaching others it, or encouraging them to learn about it.
[1]: https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/the-mongodb-perl-driver-is...
^^ I found to be very helpful in learning enough of Prolog to make a bracket for the 2018 World Cup
So typing 'rm foo* ' and pressing Alt-? (on non-OSX computers) will give you a list of what your wildcard would expand to.
M-* does the same thing but actually expands the wildcards, instead of just showing what that expansion would be.
Film is another form of media that behaves in a similar manner. Why would I need to watch the new remake of movie X when the original is so readily available, and likely better.
I think the internet has worked to make media and culture diffuse much faster. Something new and interesting is suddenly everywhere and certain kinds of surprises, or hype or suspense similar to say, the Beatles landing in the US in the 60s, would be extraordinarily hard to replicate.
I would though, take a less dour attitude in regards to the future than you seem to have hinted at. I think society is adjusting to the this bombardment of entertainment, a more more people live fulfilling lives mostly detached from social media, you just won't find them on facebook :-).