> I've never understood why people and to extend vim to try to make it half of an IDE.
Because vim ships with any *nix machine and provides a consistent experience no matter where you use it.
Vim is the DE part and people add plugins or whatever to enrich the text editing experience with LSPs or other language aware plugins, and the I in IDE is in the form of the integration with the tooling already available on the host.
Because vim ships with any *nix machine and provides a consistent experience no matter where you use it.
Vim is the DE part and people add plugins or whatever to enrich the text editing experience with LSPs or other language aware plugins, and the I in IDE is in the form of the integration with the tooling already available on the host.
This[0] might shed some better light on the "why"
[0] https://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/series/unix-as-ide/