Comments by "Toby" (@toby9999) on "Don't Use Vim For The Wrong Reasons" video.

  1. Anyone typing that fast isn't doing software development, they're most likely hacking code.
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  2. When someone says they use Vim, I ask myself, why make life difficult? Same for the terminal.
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  3. Because software development and IT are entirely different domains and skill sets. I've been a Windows C++ application developer for 25 years and into other stuff prior, but I'm clueless about anything remotely related to web development, how websites work, certificates, etc. That's just not my thing. My work has never required it, and I have zero interest in it. I also hate anything to do with terminals. I use GUIs and build GUIs. I was blown away by the first windowing system I owned (Amiga) in the 80s. I thought, OMG, how good is this. I never looked back. I just don't understand the attraction of terminals. They're a chore.
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  4. What are you talking about? MS Visual Studio can build huge projects fast and without issue. All of this unfounded hate if everything MS is cult like. We've been running daily builds with MS Visual Studio, and we've been using it for close to 30 years.... 4 weeks.... That's a Strawman.
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  5. At 7:55 absolutely spot on. Glorified text editors will never come close to the time saving features of great IDEs like IntelliJ or MS Visual Studio. They just can't. People can badh IDEs for being "bloated" if it makes them feel good, but as was said, IDEs do a lot to speed up development, and they do it in a useful way without adding unnecessary mental load. Cut down editors are sold on the premise of being about to type fast. Most of the software development effort is not spent typing fast. It's about finding that obscure function implementation somewhere within those 10,000 files. Or it's about refactoring a bunch of files or classes, or designing them etc.
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