Yeah, even if that is true, what part of a tool used by close to 40% of developers is niche?
niche /niːʃ,nɪtʃ/ (adjective) denoting products, services, or interests that appeal to a small, specialized section of the population.
Yeah, even if that is true, what part of a tool used by close to 40% of developers is niche?
niche /niːʃ,nɪtʃ/ (adjective) denoting products, services, or interests that appeal to a small, specialized section of the population.
It's niche /for development work/. Being used by a developer doesn't make it used for development. Or the most used developing tool would be the toilet.
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It's not. I use vim on a daily basis, but all I do with it is writing commit messages. The rest I do with an IDE or different editor. I'm surely not alone with that.
Even I switch to VSCodium when I write Go, for example, because the Go extension is just so good. I use it for medium- and large-sized projects, when I have to navigate through multiple files. There are ways to do it in Vim (I configured it), and Emacs, but sometimes it really is just easier to click since I am already using the mouse for stuff. There are people who never use their mouse, in which case I can imagine they use Emacs or Vim only.
And writing commit messages are to development in the same class as using the restroom?
Judging by the quality of most commit messages - yes.
> Yeah, because I use vim to turn on the shower.
You say that as if it's ridiculous. Isn't there an M-x shower-on command somewhere in Emacs?
While not going to argue that vim is niche, I don’t think it is. StackExchange surveys are likely highly unrepresentative and lack external validity. I do not believe 40% of developers use vim based on such an unvalidated and likely biased study.