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Where I work nearly everyone uses Vim. We work in less popular languages that new kids on the block (VSC, Atom) don't really support. It really either Vim or Emacs. I think most people choose Vim because it is the default "Terminal based Editor" in most peoples minds.

I use it because it's installed by default on Linux desktops. That's not important to me now—I'm currently using Neovim compiled from source—but it was important when I was first learning to code.

I could probably switch to Emacs using Evil, but I don't see a compelling reason to.

i tried using both emacs and vim at the beginning. the problem with emacs, for me, is that the keybinds were basically to harsh on my wrists while vim was quite good, because i could keep my hands on the home row.

for simple edits vim works great and is fast. for serious development , something like vscode with vim keybindings is the best of both worlds