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What is CodePen? An online community for testing and showcasing user-created HTML, CSS and JavaScript code snippets. It is a social development environment for front-end designers and developers.. It functions as an online code editor and open-source learning environment, where developers can create code snippets, creatively named "pens", and test them.

What is Vim? Highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is distributed free as charityware.

CodePen belongs to "Cloud IDE" category of the tech stack, while Vim can be primarily classified under "Text Editor".

Lyft, Typeform, and CircleCI are some of the popular companies that use Vim, whereas CodePen is used by Rescue Digital, LLC, Jan Ziemba, and CityLiv. Vim has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1159 company stacks & 5672 developers stacks; compared to CodePen, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 14 developer stacks.

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Pros of CodePen
Pros of Vim
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      Comes by default in most unix systems (remote editing)
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      Fast
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      Highly configurable
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      Less mouse dependence
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      Lightweight
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      Speed
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      Plugins
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      Hardcore
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      It's for pros
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      Vertically split windows
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      Open-source
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      Modal editing
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      No remembering shortcuts, instead "talks" to the editor
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      It stood the Test of Time
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      Unicode
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      VimPlugins
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      Everything is on the keyboard
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      Stick with terminal
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      Dotfiles
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      Flexible Indenting
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      Hands stay on the keyboard
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      Efficient and powerful
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      Programmable
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      Everywhere
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      Large number of Shortcuts
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      A chainsaw for text editing
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      Unmatched productivity
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      Developer speed
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      Super fast
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      Makes you a true bearded developer
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      Because its not Emacs
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      Modal editing changes everything
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      You cannot exit
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      Themes
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      EasyMotion
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      Most and most powerful plugins of any editor
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      Shell escapes and shell imports :!<command> and !!cmd
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      Intergrated into most editors
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      Shortcuts
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      Great on large text files
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      Habit
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      Plugin manager options. Vim-plug, Pathogen, etc
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      Intuitive, once mastered
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      Perfect command line editor
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      Not MicroSoft

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    Cons of CodePen
    Cons of Vim
    • 4
      No support for any other git-server than github
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      Ugly UI
    • 5
      Hard to learn

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    What is CodePen?

    It is a social development environment for front-end designers and developers.. It functions as an online code editor and open-source learning environment, where developers can create code snippets, creatively named "pens", and test them.

    What is Vim?

    Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is distributed free as charityware.

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