There's No Place Like $HOME: A 10 Journey of Vim, Then VS Code, and Back to Vim

I wonder if the author ever tried the Vim extension in VSCode. It gets you most of the way to the mouse-free workflow as described in the post. Without it, I would never have stuck with VSCode (though I'm definitely no VSCode evangelist and one day I also hope to switch to another tool!).

The post argues that Vim is more efficient than IDEs in the age of AI, as Vim is designed around reading + the keyboard, whereas IDEs are designed around writing + the mouse. I'd argue that such design difference was already important before AI, cause when you think more about your code you generally end up writing less. But the specific comparison of Vim vs IDEs here feels moot, as the right extension can get the same behavior out of an IDE.