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I personally am not a vim user in any way and have no intention to use it, neovim, or its keybindings, but I thoroughly enjoy such articles.

According to the Lindy Effect, we can expect such articles to continue until 2060. I personally feel that vim and it's derivatives will be with us as long as our civilization supports computing.

Yeah. It says nothing new.

Would you say that software, in general, is improving in the year of our lord 2024? We may have taken a wrong turn somewhere. Going back may be the answer.

Ok, if Vim is supposed to be an improvement, may god have mercy on us all.

Vim stands for "Vi IMproved" so it literally is meant to be an improvement, and IMO it really is although plain old Vi is still better than most editors.

Every time I try to use vscode I start losing time because within a few months I become involved in some kind of diplomacy between the maintainers of vscode and some adjacent component over a bug that neither wants to own.

Stuff just works in vim. So uh yeah, definitely an improvement. And re: may god have mercy on us all... Yeah it's not looking good. I'd really like it if we could get our shit together, but ever since we put the marketing people in charge the engineering has been looking increasingly flimsy.

That's because vim does very little.

Agreed, it doesn't suck because it has only one job to do. One master. Me.

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