• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Because they grew up with it? I cant think of any other reason. I used it in college for a class bcz my old as fuck professor required it. Its obtuse, old, and doesn’t have a lot of functionality of modern code editors.

      The only people who want to use it are people who started with it decades ago, or people who were forced to use it, and now think they’re superior somehow to everyone else who doesn’t use it.

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        The only people who want to use it are people who started with it decades ago, or people who were forced to use it, and now think they’re superior somehow to everyone else who doesn’t use it.

        oof now that is a lazy argument, I hope you were being sarcastic!

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          1 year ago

          How is this a lazy argument? Most people dont use Fortran, Cobol, or Assembly anymore for the same reason. There are better alternatives out there.

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            1 year ago

            Vim is a style of keybindings centered around only needing a keyboard, what do programming languages have to do with my point?