Why Vim Should Be Your IDE: The Ultimate Tool for Keyboard-Driven Development

Discover the power of Vim’s keyboard-centric design, learn essential commands, and see how it compares to VSCode for speed, precision, and workflow optimization.

Vim is a text editor that is known and often mentioned for being fast and powerful. It can run directly in the terminal while still providing an intuitive graphical interface for users to operate. Additionally, it was created with the goal of optimizing all necessary tasks during the text editing process so that you only need to use the keyboard. This is also what I love most about Vim 🤯🤯

Vim is an upgraded version of another text editor introduced in 1976 called Vi, and later we have Vi Improved, commonly known as Vim today.

There will be questions raised: Why should we consider using Vim in this day and age? Well, for me personally, it’s mainly because I’m just too lazy 😅. Once my hands are on the keyboard to start coding, I want them to stay there! Honestly, the act of lifting my hand to grab the mouse and move it around interrupts my coding flow. And Vim comes in as a solution.

For me, learning to code using Vim is similar to learning to play a musical instrument. It…