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Pretty sure I could do all of these easier in VSCode, except.maybe adding up all the numbers in a file.

As (neo)vim user, this article is quite low on the tier list for useful information about vim IMO. I appreciate the vim discussion here but not much more to gain from this posting unfortunately.

Not everyone wants to edit in a browser, maybe many people can't due to their computers spec.

VSCode runs a desktop app as well as in a browser. You knew that though.

And I use VSCode on a 10 year old desktop. VSCode itself is very light. It's the extensions that sometimes have performance issues. Microsoft's C++ one is by far the worst offender.

The parent meant that the “desktop app” is actually a browser.

I know.

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