cbazero@programming.devtoAsk Experienced Devs@programming.dev•Users of Vim and similars, what exactly makes it useful compared to other text editors? How much time do you suppose you save when working with it?
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4 months ago- The motions exist everywhere. Almost every editor has at least a vim motions plugin.
- You can navigate in your file without having to move your hand (to the mouse or the arrow keys)
- Vim is aware of the text you are editing. You can delete/change text between/up to quotes, parenthesis, etc
- You can program Neovim to do whatever you want. This means you can optimize it exactly for your workflow
Zig is a modern C. Rust is a (modern) alternative to C++. So two different languages can exist alongside each other, just like C and C++.