saw someone unironically use vim the other day. i thought people actually using vim was a joke.

It’s my go to editor wherever possible.

Learn the keybindings, play a few vim games and install an opinionated suite of plugins like lazyvim.

Before you know it, you too will curse every other editor in existence which doesn’t at least offer vim keybindings 😄

bro how do you comfortably use $, ^ and 0 for navigation??

It’s simply muscle memory. You think of the action and your fingers do it faster than you can consciously think of where they need to go. But I also use a split ergonomic keyboard (the Iris) and have symbols accessible from home row behind a layer. Though I can switch to a standard keyboard as needed too.