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How have influencers impacted the software world?
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I don't see the intersection set of people who use neovim and people who watch influencers would be somewhat big. It's probably closer to an empty set. Neovim users are a subset of Vim users, which is already kinda niche to be influenced by some Youtuber.
I honestly was persuaded to start using neovim (again) because of theprimegean. I don't like his content, but I was so tired of VS Code being so fucking slow and not part of the terminal. I used vim a lot, but with too many plugins it slows to a crawl. So when theprimegean talked about neovim, I was like great, yeah, I should try that. And then a few videos later I blocked his chanel because, yeah, it's not great.
I don't know who he is but it seems you were already in a searching for an alternative, he just did his part I guess. :) Corpos nowadays almost only use VS Code (and some force people to use it), free devs can use whatever they want. This popularity of Neovim is for that. It's a fraction and very relative. The fact that VS Code sucks is for a different topic.
I wouldn't complain about using VSCode if the team i was on primarily used it (a la Typescript). But yeah, I'm glad I am more independent... And not doing web dev.