Comment by uludag
1 year ago
Work at a "tech shop," even old-school ones, most likely involves extremely varied types of work, much more than name-refactoring, for which something like IntelliJ indeed would be the best tool. Just because one use-case of one tool being better than another use-case of another, doesn't imply that users of the former are stubborn/unintelligent/worse than the others. Maybe there's a use case where the Vim user is at an advantage.
The fact that the market hasn't outright eliminated such people goes to show that things like LSPs aren't that extreme of an advantage.
LSPs are useful because they are context-aware and understand the syntax.
But that advantage becomes a weakness when you need more complex text replacement or specific repetitive actions.
That is why I use vim with an LSP, I find it to be the best of both worlds (especially the macros in vim): a smart but limited tool, and a dumb but powerful one.
Maybe we'll get a smart and powerful one some day (but I doubt it).