I choose not to use vim, emacs, irssi (except rarely) and other terminal based apps.

The reason I do this is because I am of the opinion that technology needs to be accessible. Visual Studio Code works and it's approachable for a new comer.

I do use bash, tmux, and mosh because there isn't really anything better.

But I feel that vim, weechat/irssi and mutt promote an asthetic of computers as magical black boxes only understood by wizards. That's an exclusionary asthetic.

I've been *laughed* at when people saw me using gedit to write code. When they found out I wrote cjdns they shut their faces.

For every one person who got laughed at and wrote cjdns, there are thousands who got laughed at and didn't.

This is how people get shoved out of CS.

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