Sources say the decision was made by how long interns spent in each editor. In fact, it appears the vim users simply never exited once they opened the program, presumably because they found it so productive.

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[–] theluddite@lemmy.ml 65 points 8 months ago (4 children)

We need to set aside our petty differences and fight the true enemy: bloated IDEs.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 29 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

ed is the standard editor.

[–] notabot@lemm.ee 31 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Bah, a magnetised needle and a steady hand is the one true way to edit code on your prod system.

[–] ThePinkUnicorn@lemdro.id 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Excuse me, but real programmers use butterflies.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 8 points 8 months ago

Hah, still relying on butterflies? Real programmers simply use the starting conditions of the universe to understand where their program will spontaneously compile

[–] nephs@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 8 months ago

I used to have my local environment synced to prod. Saving meant deployed.

Everything was feature flagged by default, we never broke production in years. That was early 2010s.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 0 points 8 months ago

That’s non standard though.

[–] BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You shouldn't let your Visual ideas be Eclipsed, by something Sublime...

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 7 points 8 months ago

Such an IntelliJent comment.

[–] funnystuff97@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

return to your roots: use notepad

[–] iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 8 months ago

Emacs was the first bloated IDE!