I Use Vim Btw

The text editor hierarchy is real and it's brutal . At the top, Vim/Emacs users look down on everyone with their terminal superiority complex. In the middle, VSCode/Spyder folks think they've found the perfect balance between power and sanity. And then there's the poor soul using whatever text editor came pre-installed with Ubuntu, probably Gedit or Nano, just trying to survive while everyone else judges their life choices. The coding elite have created their own caste system, and your editor choice reveals exactly where you belong in the programming social hierarchy. The deeper you go into customizing your .vimrc file, the more insufferable you become to everyone around you.

Ah, the evolution of our noble profession! Remember when developers were depicted as muscular gods who could write flawless code without Stack Overflow, build entire games in Assembly, send rockets to the moon, and fix memory leaks by manually adjusting pointers? Fast forward to today's reality: frantically Googling basic CSS centering (still an unsolved mystery of computer science), begging ChatGPT to fix our syntax errors, getting trapped in Vim like it's some kind of developer hazing ritual, and the classic "fix one bug, spawn three more" hydra effect. The greatest irony? Those "superhuman" developers from the past would probably spend three hours debugging their Assembly code only to realize they forgot a semicolon. We've just outsourced our impostor syndrome to AI assistants.

OH. MY. GOD. The AUDACITY to classify Vim users as having a "disability"! 💀 The most savage burn in web development history! Keyboard warriors everywhere are CLUTCHING their mechanical keyboards in horror! Because let's be honest, nothing says "I make life unnecessarily complicated for myself" like spending 6 months learning how to exit an editor. Meanwhile, the rest of us peasants with our mouse-clicking privileges are just trying to navigate websites without typing ":wq" to submit a form. The struggle is REAL, people!

When your production server is infected with malware and the only way to communicate with the outside world is through Vim commands! That hazmat suit isn't protecting them from a virus - it's protecting them from the absolute horror of not being able to exit Vim. The desperate "ESC :q!" is the universal distress signal of developers trapped in the terminal abyss. Some say they're still trying to save and quit to this day...

The Vim initiation ritual – desperately smashing Esc, random key combos, and eventually grabbing your mouse in frustration because you have no idea how to exit . The true programmer's hazing ceremony. Eight years as a developer and I still sometimes open Vim by accident and feel that same panic. The only difference now is I know to yell ":q!" while crying slightly less.

The left panel shows the calm before the storm: "cat steps on keyboard." No big deal, right? WRONG. The right panel reveals the horrifying aftermath: "vim is in normal mode." For the uninitiated, Vim's normal mode is where random keystrokes become powerful commands. A cat's chaotic keyboard dance is essentially executing a series of unintended operations—deleting files, replacing text, or summoning eldritch horrors from the void of your codebase. It's like giving a toddler nuclear launch codes, except the toddler is fluffier and has zero remorse for destroying your 3-hour coding session.