Comment by eestrada

I mostly like Vim because it is available everywhere and in the terminal. In its default configuration it isn't the most powerful IDE, but it is vastly more powerful that any other default experience in any other text editor (IMO). It also makes it trivially easy to shell out to external tools for modifying the text, so even for a set up that isn't heavily riced you can still do a ton.

Even when I'm forced to use another IDE for work, I try to find Vim keybindings ASAP. I like that I can learn Vim motions and actions once and use them in nearly every IDE.