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When I Accidentally Deleted VSCode and tried Vim

A small story of my brief stunt.

Harsh Mehta

Harsh Mehta

3/29/2024 · 1 min read

vim adventures lol

So I made a pretty dumb mistake recently. I was cleaning up my files in VSCode—always a dangerous move—and ended up deleting something important. Yeah, VSCode wouldn’t open after that. Panic set in, and I felt like I was about to enter the coding dark ages.

In desperation (and to say that “i use vim btw”), I decided to give Neovim a shot. People rave about it, right? Well, let me tell you, switching to Neovim was like trying to use a rotary phone after being on smartphones for years :) The interface looked cool, but I felt completely lost.

I spent a week wrestling with Neovim, trying to remember basic commands and figuring out how to save files.

After countless failed attempts to navigate Neovim and some questionable Googling, I finally got VSCode back up and running. tough week.

So, here’s to VSCode. Neovim was an experience, but I’m happy to be back in familiar territory…

(I’ll still give it a shot when im not focussing on pLaCeMeNts)