Sources say the decision was made by how long interns spent in each editor. In fact, it appears the vim users simply never exited once they opened the program, presumably because they found it so productive.
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We need to set aside our petty differences and fight the true enemy: bloated IDEs.
ed is the standard editor.
Bah, a magnetised needle and a steady hand is the one true way to edit code on your prod system.
I used to have my local environment synced to prod. Saving meant deployed.
Everything was feature flagged by default, we never broke production in years. That was early 2010s.