Over at The New Stack is a brief but entertaining history of the editor vi and Vim.
"The editor was optimized so that you could edit and feel productive when it was painting slower than you could think. Now that computers are so much faster than you can think, nobody understands this anymore," Joy said. "It was a world that is now extinct. People don't know that vi was written for a world that doesn't exist anymore."
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by aristarchus on Thursday August 23 2018, @12:17AM (1 child)
That we could have a nice rational discussion about vim, after that nasty recurrence of Sad Puppy bashing and Hugo Awards knashing of kvetch.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @06:05PM
...that you started