Vim

I was first introduced to Vim by my good friend Sam. As someone who tries to work as much in the terminal as possible, Vim was perfect for my text editing needs. Although I’ve known/used Vim for a while, it’s always basic usage for quick edititing, and its always been a secondary editor to Visual Studio Code. This was because I relied heavily on the intellisense when programming in langauges like Go.

Today I read something that changed my perspective on intellisense. I’ve recently started watching a twitch streamer by the name of rwxrob, who replied to someone posting in his discord about the Language Server Protocol. He stated that “intellisense and autocompletion are two of the most disasterously bad things adopted by modern developers and are only appreciated by those just beginning as a crutch that is better served by learning to search through syntax and documentation with examples instead. The end.”

Now I would like to also say that after talking with Rob, he did state that “I do have opinions but I’m happy to change them when I have new information. I’m a little softer on my position about tab completion over the popups from intellisense. The fact that I have become very fast at looking stuff up with Lynx has also influenced my opinion on the matter. If I had to look up everything on a graphic browser I would probably like intellisense a lot more. I was raised on man pages and lynx and therefore am biased.”

This has inspired me to properly learn Vim and ditch my reliance on intellisense.

Time to hit that vimtutor.