> I can use my editor over ssh and edit anywhere, I don't need a GUI to even be installed on the system where I have all of my cores and RAM for compiling the kernel,
I launch my editor once a day. Why do you need to keep killing and starting your editor?
> and it's completely free and open source,
OK, so is VS Code, or at least the OSS version, which has all the key features anyway.
> not driven by a corporation,
So this is your philosophy.
> and there's decades of documentation on how to use it.
Most of it out of date, probably.
> I guess it's the systems developer in me
Guess what? I'm a systems developer too! I also work on the kernel! But I use VS Code.
> that can't fathom someone that wants to use a tool to make a living without understanding it fully and being able to tweak it to their exact liking over the course of their entire career
VS Code is open source, so there's nothing stopping me from diving in if I want to. And it's also highly extensible.
Now that I've answered all the supposed benefits you list about (neo)vim, I have one question:
Can (neo)vim show text in two different font sizes? Or fonts? Like, what if I want my documentation popups to show up in a sans-serif font? No, don't tell me I have to open up the documentation in a browser or whatever. I want it in the popup.
I can use VS Code in the browser: https://github.com/coder/code-server
> it starts up instantly,
I launch my editor once a day. Why do you need to keep killing and starting your editor?
> and it's completely free and open source,
OK, so is VS Code, or at least the OSS version, which has all the key features anyway.
> not driven by a corporation,
So this is your philosophy.
> and there's decades of documentation on how to use it.
Most of it out of date, probably.
> I guess it's the systems developer in me
Guess what? I'm a systems developer too! I also work on the kernel! But I use VS Code.
> that can't fathom someone that wants to use a tool to make a living without understanding it fully and being able to tweak it to their exact liking over the course of their entire career
VS Code is open source, so there's nothing stopping me from diving in if I want to. And it's also highly extensible.
Now that I've answered all the supposed benefits you list about (neo)vim, I have one question:
Can (neo)vim show text in two different font sizes? Or fonts? Like, what if I want my documentation popups to show up in a sans-serif font? No, don't tell me I have to open up the documentation in a browser or whatever. I want it in the popup.