David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

Now, a lot of people saw a huge problem with that.

They were like, oh, it needs to have more features.

It needs to have all these things.

I was like, I'm happy with this text editor that hasn't changed at all, basically, when Alan stopped working on it for a decade or more.

I don't need anything else.

Because as our original discussion went, I don't want an IDE.

I don't want the editor to write code for me.

I want a text editor.

I want to interact with characters directly.

And NeoVim...

allows me to do that in some ways that are even better than TextMate.

And I love TextMate, but VI, as you know, once you learn the commands and it sounds, I sometimes feel like VI fans overplay how difficult it is to learn because it makes them perhaps seem kind of more awesome that they were able to do it.

It's not that difficult.

And it doesn't take that long, in my opinion, to learn just enough combo moves to,

to get that high of, holy shit, I could not do this in any other.

You have a, you have a treat in mind.

Well, I switched in about,

I had three days when I switched here about a year ago.

I had three days of cursing where I thought it was absolutely terrible and it was never going to happen.

And I had three days of annoyance.