Why “Vim” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
> Programming languages (von nuemann languages) are all opinionated expositions of the same machinery, so the cost of translating the model to the language is a real cost. I don…
by skydhash · Oct 6, 2026
Actually I really only need bare vim now. It's really refreshing. I can view, navigate, diff etc without any fancy plugins. I can add comments where I want the agent to change s…
by triyambakam · Oct 6, 2026
terminal and vim work completely fine
by JohnMakin · Oct 6, 2026
It's vim vs emacs of this generation. Vscode is vim and intellij is emacs I guess. It does everything.
by dyzone · Oct 6, 2026
While I "vibe code" more and more these days, an IDE that still does code highlighting, I can use it to look up functions source and so on, it is very useful to be able to figur…
by ExoticPearTree · Oct 6, 2026
This is not the whole picture. IDE is not just for writing code. What I really like on jetbrains is how strong the platform is. I will show you example which would be great if t…
by jbvlkt · Oct 6, 2026
Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "vim" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "vim" over time.
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