Why Vim Is Better Than VS Code

Manpreet Singh
3 min readApr 30, 2022

Welcome back! VS Code and Vim are very popular code editors that many developers use, if you’re new to these editors, take a look at their websites below to learn more about them:

So, let’s take a look at a ways why Vim maybe a better option to use than VS Code!

Lightweight

Although VS Code is fairly lightweight as well, Vim is a very lightweight editor, taking up very little resources/memory from your machine (depending on your program). If you’re a developer who is using a machine with very little power, using an editor like Vim could require less power than VS Code.

Very Configurable

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