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> let’s say it makes you 5% more productive > It’s an extra twenty minutes a day Author presumes 100% of programming time is spent typing/editing. Is this really the case? I'd wager it's close to 10% for most people.
I'd love to see some objective stats though!
Is there a study, or you just feel like it?
> it makes you 5% more productive Is there a study, or you just feel like it?
Being conservative, let’s say it makes you 5% more productive.
I've used vim and emacs. I can't claim to be an expert on either, but I am somewhat comfortable with vim and it can be convenient for any unix straight out of the box. But I found it to be fairly overrated even with all these claims of boost in productivity. Just use Sublime Text in this day and age and use the spare time you would've had to learn vim and do something more useful.
All these abstract claims in blog posts and on forum pages about productivity are completely worthless. Go watch a stream where you can actually see someone program. Maybe you'll pick something up that they do better/faster/more elegant than you. Other than that, the best advice is to ignore these kinds of topics.
I've been interested in using vim and am not completely useless at using it, but I haven't quite been able to commit to it. The main reason is that I'm not sure it's any faster than using IntelliJs products well. Last time I mentioned to a coworker who is a vim user, that I was thinking if switching to it, he said he was thinking of switching to Idea after seeing me use it.
IntelliJ is a great tool, too.
Reducing the number of keystrokes per days is paramount to productivity increase for me, nowadays.
> it makes you 5% more productive Is there a study, or you just feel like it?
Full quote, for context: Being conservative, let’s say it makes you 5% more productive. It's subjective. I'd like to see a before and after study, but empirically measuring code productivity is -- a hard problem.
Still I think it could be measured.
I've used vim and emacs. I can't claim to be an expert on either, but I am somewhat comfortable with vim and it can be convenient for any unix straight out of the box. But I found it to be fairly overrated even with all these claims of boost in productivity. Just use Sublime Text in this day and age and use the spare time you would've had to learn vim and do something more useful.
I moved to VIM (ideavim, vimperator) completely once I started feeling uncomfortable in the right palm. Reducing the number of keystrokes per days is paramount to productivity increase for me, nowadays.