

Lately, though, I have been feeling a little underwhelmed by Vim. I could write tests, run them, refactor code, and run commands with absolute ease. With sufficient plugins and dotfiles, I was CRUISING through codebases. That community pushed my knowledge, comfort, and understanding further and further.Įventually, I was running tmux and Vim together in the terminal. Thoughtbot, Hashrocket, and countless other agencies, companies, and individuals contributed to the community (and cult) of Vim. Later, working as a Ruby on Rails Engineer, Vim was still an amazing editor. When I was a junior-level release engineer, working on small scripts, Vim was amazing. The love affair I have with Vim stuck with me throughout my career and remains strong to this very day. I fell in love with the minimalism of only needing a terminal to do work and the power of stringing together commands, like words, to edit programs and text. It was almost an instant connection for me. I was introduced to Vim on my first programming job. For the last 10 years or so, I have been a die-hard Vim user.
