I find articles like this interesting, mainly because I went through a similar transition (IDE => Sublime => vim). However, my story stopped at vim.
For this particular article, I think what strikes me as odd is:
> use[ing] the keyboard is slower for some selection tasks like selecting a range of text far from the cursor than the mouse is
This is...precisely the opposite of my experience. I find navigation and selection to be the most powerful aspects of vim. I never felt like I "got" vim until I understood this, in fact. I constantly questioned if the investment of time was worth it. That being said, if you don't grok this I could see how it would be defeating. You eventually reach a point where you forget the mouse is even an option though.
My only other comment is in regard to his mention of issues with tabs. I'm curious what we were doing so differently, because that's never once been a problem for me, even in early days (however I could see how it would be super annoying).
I'm of the mind that it doesn't matter what you use as long as you're being productive, but it's also neat to see what path other people walk down.
For this particular article, I think what strikes me as odd is:
> use[ing] the keyboard is slower for some selection tasks like selecting a range of text far from the cursor than the mouse is
This is...precisely the opposite of my experience. I find navigation and selection to be the most powerful aspects of vim. I never felt like I "got" vim until I understood this, in fact. I constantly questioned if the investment of time was worth it. That being said, if you don't grok this I could see how it would be defeating. You eventually reach a point where you forget the mouse is even an option though.
My only other comment is in regard to his mention of issues with tabs. I'm curious what we were doing so differently, because that's never once been a problem for me, even in early days (however I could see how it would be super annoying).
I'm of the mind that it doesn't matter what you use as long as you're being productive, but it's also neat to see what path other people walk down.