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VSCodium vs Vim: What are the differences?

### Key Differences between VSCodium and Vim

1. **User Interface**: VSCodium provides a modern graphical user interface with features like side-by-side editing, while Vim is a terminal-based text editor with a steep learning curve and primarily relies on keyboard commands for navigation.
2. **Extensions and Plugins**: VSCodium offers a wide range of extensions and plugins through its marketplace for added functionality and customization, whereas Vim has a vast ecosystem of scriptable plugins that can be configured to suit individual needs.
3. **Ease of Use**: VSCodium is more beginner-friendly and intuitive due to its visual interface and interactive features, catering to a wider audience, while Vim requires more time and effort to master its keyboard shortcuts and modal editing.
4. **Community Support**: VSCodium has a larger and more active community that regularly updates and maintains the editor, providing comprehensive documentation and support resources, whereas Vim has a dedicated but smaller community that tends to focus on specific aspects of the editor.
5. **Portability**: Vim is highly portable and can run on virtually any system that has a terminal, making it versatile for various environments, while VSCodium may have limitations in certain operating systems or hardware configurations.
6. **Customization**: Vim excels in customization options through manual configuration of settings and plugins, allowing users to tailor the editor to their specific workflow, while VSCodium, although customizable, may have limitations compared to the deep configurability of Vim.

In Summary, VSCodium and Vim differ in user interface, extensibility, ease of use, community support, portability, and customization options.
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Pros of Vim
Pros of VSCodium
  • 347
    Comes by default in most unix systems (remote editing)
  • 328
    Fast
  • 312
    Highly configurable
  • 297
    Less mouse dependence
  • 247
    Lightweight
  • 145
    Speed
  • 100
    Plugins
  • 97
    Hardcore
  • 82
    It's for pros
  • 65
    Vertically split windows
  • 30
    Open-source
  • 25
    Modal editing
  • 22
    No remembering shortcuts, instead "talks" to the editor
  • 21
    It stood the Test of Time
  • 16
    Unicode
  • 13
    VimPlugins
  • 13
    Everything is on the keyboard
  • 13
    Stick with terminal
  • 12
    Dotfiles
  • 11
    Flexible Indenting
  • 10
    Hands stay on the keyboard
  • 10
    Efficient and powerful
  • 10
    Programmable
  • 9
    Everywhere
  • 9
    Large number of Shortcuts
  • 8
    A chainsaw for text editing
  • 8
    Unmatched productivity
  • 7
    Developer speed
  • 7
    Super fast
  • 7
    Makes you a true bearded developer
  • 7
    Because its not Emacs
  • 7
    Modal editing changes everything
  • 6
    You cannot exit
  • 6
    Themes
  • 5
    EasyMotion
  • 5
    Most and most powerful plugins of any editor
  • 5
    Shell escapes and shell imports :!<command> and !!cmd
  • 5
    Intergrated into most editors
  • 5
    Shortcuts
  • 5
    Great on large text files
  • 5
    Habit
  • 5
    Plugin manager options. Vim-plug, Pathogen, etc
  • 4
    Intuitive, once mastered
  • 4
    Perfect command line editor
  • 1
    Not MicroSoft
  • 6
    Simple and intuitive UI
  • 6
    Community-driven
  • 6
    Open source
  • 5
    Intellisense
  • 4
    Powerful multilanguage IDE
  • 4
    Terminal
  • 4
    Fast
  • 4
    Good Plugins
  • 4
    Crossplatform
  • 4
    Git integration
  • 4
    Privacy
  • 3
    Powerful
  • 3
    Extensions

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Cons of Vim
Cons of VSCodium
  • 8
    Ugly UI
  • 5
    Hard to learn
  • 2
    Some extentions can't be isntalled direclty from IDE

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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.

What is VSCodium?

It is a community-driven, freely-licensed binary distribution of Microsoft’s editor VSCode.

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