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I use Vim because:

- works at the speed I think. It renders text quickly, responds to my keystrokes quickly, and lets me work my will quickly. That's nice when I have a lot to do or am inspired, which covers most of the time I'm coding

- It's open source and trustworthy. I'm not gonna wake up one day and find out a critical plugin I use is closing the source and making a change I hate, or that Vim itself was uploading my code to copilot, etc.

- It's basically a platform. You can do whatever you want in Vim, remap all the keybindings, make a music player, whatever.

- It's respectful of my computer's resources. It starts up almost instantly, and generally uses very little CPU and RAM.



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