I’ve used Vim and Git daily for 9-10 years now and I don’t need anything else, only exception is that some tracing, debugging, profiling, etc., programming tasks where I prefer a GUI. But I rarely do that kind of programming these days so it isn’t an issue.

I think it takes a lot more effort to learn more so to say “low-level” and old-school tools like Vim but if you really practice and try to learn new things every day, you’ll be crazy fast after a year. Guaranteed.

Another aspect is that big clunky monoliths like Visual Studio run slow even on fast hardware. Imagine if AAA games had the same FPS as VSCode :)

Every single click and dialog box adds some tens-hundreds milliseconds of lag … it adds up. CLI tools are instant and it actually matters if this is your day job. Check out “terminal latency”, it is a workplace hazard kind of :D