Comment Thank you, Bram (Score 1) 62
'vim' is a marvel, and Bram Moolenaar did a lot of good for the world, and I am grateful for that.
TL;DR:
I started using Borland IDEs on MS-DOS (Turbo Pascal and Turbo C, around 1987/1988), which were based on the WordStar editor commands. I first tried 'vim' around 1994, on my first PC, using Linux on a Slackware distribution (486 DX2 66MHz with 8MB of RAM, and a 500MB hard disk), because for university homework we were told to learn the 'vi' editor, as in the lab we were using Sun workstations. I continued using a Borland-compatible editor for Linux named 'Joe', as I felt more productive. It took me some time, but I ended up switching to 'vim', once I felt I could do it better than with previous editors. Despite using other editors, e.g. Notepad++ and Visual Studio in Windows, in Linux and Mac I still use mostly 'vim', even though it's considered outdated because more modern/popular editors are taking its place, e.g. VS Code, Kate, etc.