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: 2) by NewNic on Thursday August 23 2018, @12:50AM (2 children)
nano is for lusers now. The new hotness is pico.
lib·er·tar·i·an·ism ˌlibərˈterēənizəm/ noun: Magical thinking that useful idiots mistake for serious political theory
(Score: 2) by suburbanitemediocrity on Thursday August 23 2018, @01:01AM (1 child)
I used pico long before I ever heard of nano. Not the I've used either more than a few dozen times.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @05:24AM
I use atto. It's nice, if a bit minimalistic. For example you write device drivers with 'cat > /dev/whatver'.