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The first thing that jumps out to me from the 2017 study is that on average 20-25% of developer time is spent navigating 😲

This anecdotally explains to me why I find vim so empowering and why I get so frustrated while trying to get where I need to be in other tools like VS Code. Vim (plus plugins) is optimized for navigation, so I can fly from place to place where I need to read code, check a test, make an edit, create a new file. Whereas in other ideas I feel like I’m trying to run in a swimming pool.