1 year ago

A decade ago, a programmer asked on Stack Overflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11828270/how-do-i-exit-vim the decades-old https://www.vim.org/ open source text editor, and the question has since become a cultural touchstone of the modern development experience. Maybe it’s proof that the https://thenewstack.io/a-look-at-vim-a-text-editor-for-the-ages/ has retained its popularity — that it’s now part of the shared collective experience of the developer community.

Maybe there’s some secret pride in the fact that as powerful as Vim may be — there is still a learning curve. Getting trapped in Vim in a decades-old text editor remains a common if not universal experience for struggling first-time users.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11828270/how-do-i-exit-vim — and in the decade since the question has been upvoted 4,786 times (and bookmarked by Stack Overflow users over a thousand times).