I've been using LazyVim for the past week when coding. I kinda like it, can't deny!
I had a rudimentary knowledge of vi from years of server wrangling, only the basics but a decent grounding. There's a vast amount to learn in the vimosphere, and I'm in no way proficient with it yet, but despite my clunkiness I don't feel that much slower than I am with VS Code. This surprises me because I have decades of muscle memory to retrain, but to be honest Claude does a lot of typing for me at the moment – for the most part I'm only editing and polishing the code, so not actually typing huge amounts.
I had a rudimentary knowledge of vi from years of server wrangling, only the basics but a decent grounding. There's a vast amount to learn in the vimosphere, and I'm in no way proficient with it yet, but despite my clunkiness I don't feel that much slower than I am with VS Code. This surprises me because I have decades of muscle memory to retrain, but to be honest Claude does a lot of typing for me at the moment – for the most part I'm only editing and polishing the code, so not actually typing huge amounts.
One downside I've noticed is when I switch back to another text editor like Obsidian, Apple Notes or any text box on the web, I find myself using vi commands to do things! This is probably normal, and I'm hoping I get used to the context switching over time.
It's too early to say if I'll stick with it for the long haul, and maybe I'm a glutton for punishment but I'm finding the journey surprisingly enjoyable.
It's too early to say if I'll stick with it for the long haul, and maybe I'm a glutton for punishment but I'm finding the journey surprisingly enjoyable.