Coding Confessional

Absolves: 254 | Condemns: 170

02/27/2013

I once rejected a very well-paying job just because they asked me to use Sublime Text (which they bought in bulks). I told them I'd rather die than not use vim for my job. Was it a bad idea? Probably. Do I regret it? Hell no.

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Comments

Anonymous:

Sublime does have a classic mode, but it's basically broken Vim, and the missing parts hurt me every single day.

Anonymous:

As a die-hard sublime user I absolve you

Anonymous:

Probably a nice indicator of the culture. (Command and Control! Do what we say!)

Anonymous:

Did they ask you or FORCE YOU?... i don't get it

Anonymous:

Vintage mode, dude... vintage mode.

Anonymous:

Had the same experience, except they wanted RubyMine.

Anonymous:

Humblebrag.

Vim Hacker:

You did the right Thing. Even I would have done that.

Anonymous:

Vintage mode is like being trapped in a hellish alternate universe where vim was purposefully broken.

Anonymous:

I'd never accept a position that forces me to use a specific program for any dev related tasks. It doesn't matter how it's done, just get it done.

Anonymous:

why do they care what editor one uses ? as long as the task is solved, i cannot see why any imployer would argue to use something else ?

Anonymous:

I love my job, we get to use whatever we want (except we have to have windows 7 for encryption software reasons). One of my coworkers runs a fedora VM and codes in Vim, I use ST, another coworker uses Eclipse, and we try our best to keep our boss from writing code at all.

Anonymous:

That doesn’t make any sense. The whole point of developing in text editors is to allow a project to be edited by anyone using anything. If they were pushing an IDE, I’d understand the conflict, but this just sounds like two children arguing over their favorite colors.