Comment by 9dev

2 days ago

No need to guess, the SO survey is probably still representative of the state of development environments:

Note that respondents may use multiple tools, but around 76% answered VSCode, whereas 24% answered Vim.

So, I’d wager you’re indeed in a *nix bubble.

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9dev

That is so different than I expected. Thank you for the link.

It's more indicative of the state of SO users.

Care to bet even those 24% vim devs code circles around the VSCode ones?

The SO survey was skewed to begin with, and by 2025 it covers a much reduced fraction of past users. See:

Not that your conclusion is necessarily wrong of course.