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“I used vim for a long time in my younger days, but at some point I forgot all the shortcuts I needed for efficiency and switched off of it.”
Jae Kaplan Interview, CEO, anti software software club · via Uses This 
“As for programming, I just can't quit vim.”
Justin Searls Interview, Programmer · via Uses This 
“For writing software I full-screen a terminal and use Vim.”
David Crawshaw Interview, Co-founder, CTO (Tailscale) · via Uses This 


“For coding, I use Vim and a Unix shell.”
Toby Alden Interview, Game and web developer · via Uses This 
“For text editing and programming it's Vim, though I admit to using the arrow keys to move the cursor around instead of hjkl.”
Justine Haupt Interview, Science associate · via Uses This 
“I'm known for being the creator and maintainer of Vim, the text editor.”
Bram Moolenaar Interview, Developer (Vim) · via Uses This 

“I've been using Vim for well over 6 years now and I don't see me stopping.”
Jacky Alcine Interview, Software developer (Glitch) · via Uses This 
“It lets me comfortably compose all my mail in my favorite text editor, Vim.”
Chris Wellons Interview, Software engineer · via Uses This 
“In the terminal, I'll reach for vim, which I invoke as vi not vim because I am old and my fingers do things in the shell without conscious thought.”
C J Silverio Interview, Software developer · via Uses This 
“Vim: the editor I'm writing code with.”
Ludovic Chabant Interview, Software developer (Epic) · via Uses This 
“The app that I use the most within the terminal is Vim for text and code editing.”
Philip Guo Interview, Cognitive science professor · via Uses This 
“Since I do a lot of math, I have specificity for writing implements on par with my vim configuration.”
Jeremy Kun Interview, Infrastructure optimisation (Google) · via Uses This 
“Now, drumroll, fanfare, spotlight, take a deep breath, here comes the most important piece of software on my computer: my editor, Vim.”
Thorsten Ball Interview, Writer, software developer · via Uses This 

“vim has given me a very dynamic way of thinking with my fingers, but left me with a taste for absolutely never lifting my hands off of the keyboard that Spectacle helps to satisfy.”
Samantha Goldstein Interview, Software engineer (Etsy) · via Uses This 
“I mostly work in the terminal and use vim as my editor.”
Ian MacLarty Interview, Indie game developer · via Uses This 
“I use vim as a code editor.”
Suz Hinton Interview, Developer (Microsoft), hardware hacker · via Uses This 
“I started using vim in college because I thought it would make people respect me.”
Amy Nguyen Interview, Infrastructure engineer (Stripe) · via Uses This 
“Maybe it comes with being a Vim user.”
Kyle Kingsbury Interview, Computer safety researcher · via Uses This 
“A lot of my work revolves around text files (code, journal, notes, ..) so the two pieces of software I probably interact with most are vim and git.”
Daniel Schauenberg Interview, Staff engineer (Etsy) · via Uses This 
“This is very nice for using in Vim.”
Aaron "tenderlove" Patterson Interview, Ruby developer (Red Hat) · via Uses This 
“Since everything I develop is for the web, I use Vim on the command line, and I run my development servers there too.”
Darius Kazemi Interview, Internet artist (Tiny Subversions) · via Uses This 
“In half of my multitudinous terminal sessions, you will find Vim instances.”
Judd Vinet Interview, Software engineer (Arch Linux), CTO (Bet Smart Media) · via Uses This 
“For word processing, I do a lot of my writing in the vim text editor.”
Brendan Gregg Interview, Senior performance architect (Netflix) · via Uses This 

“For programming, I use gVim with the Mustang theme.”
Chris Klimas Interview, Web developer (Twine) · via Uses This 
“For development, I usually work with Vim with a highly customized .vimrc file.”
Adit Gupta Interview, Founder and CEO (Function Space) · via Uses This