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You don't even need a text editor, you can write it on paper.
But both are terrible options if you want to actually get stuff done, now that we have better tools.
Mate people feel hacky if they use VIM to write code. Double the time, and corrections commits all the time
Oh yeah, vim motions are peak. Still not a substitute for a decent IDE, though.
Vim is great at what it does (help you write/change text faster), I just don't think that's the right goal to pursue when it comes to software development.
It is with plugins, however. I've used neovim for years at work and it has LSP capabilities and grammar-based syntax parsing. So it provides lots of IDE-like features on top of its excellent text-editing features. Nevwrmind that it integrates with the terminal much better than IDEs.
So I couldn't disagree more with your statement
I use IntelliJ with a vim plugin, so I get the motions, but also an IDE. IntelliJ has excellent terminal support. For Java, there's no better setup.
How are you going to build that application you wrote on the paper?
OCR
Very slowly
With a lot of consideration
Just take a picture and give it to AI