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    [–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    It always surprises me how complicated some of the editor tooling sounds in threads like this. Obviously once you learn how to use these things they are powerful, but how do people have the patience to deal with all of that in the beginning? This is coming from a guy who writes scripts constantly to avoid doing tedious, error-prone things.

    Also I keep seeing people say vscode is slow. One of the reasons I switched to it is that it's insanely fast compared to other editors I used (even those with far-inferior featuresets) 🤷‍♂️

    [–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

    but how do people have the patience to deal with all of that in the beginning?

    Whenever I was frustrated with a stupid undecipherable error message, I would just tweak my vim config a bit.

    Within a few minutes, my rage at the error would be completely replaced with rage toward vimscript.

    Then I would revert my vim config change, and return to the undecipherable error message with a fresh perspective. mainly relief that at least it's not vimscript.

    Joking aside, I really did learn vim mostly during coffee breaks or while waiting on some long running build process.