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A developer shares a personal anecdote about using vim without plugins during a Java internship to prove their coding skill, contrasting it with using popular IDEs.

I had to write Java during my junior year internship in 2016. And my manager asked me what IDE I was using. I told him, I'm using vim with no plugins. My whole life, I wanted to see if I was a badass or not. Am I a fake badass that coded in IntelliJ / NetBeans / VSCode, or am I really a badass on the inside?
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I had to write Java during my junior year internship in 2016. And my manager asked me what IDE I was using. I told him, I’m using vim with no plugins.

My whole life, I wanted to see if I was a badass or not. Am I a fake badass that coded in IntelliJ / NetBeans / VSCode, or am I really a badass on the inside?

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