Vim VS LocalOps

• Efficiency
  Once learned, Vim can significantly speed up text editing with its modal editing, keyboard shortcuts, and commands that allow for quick navigation and manipulation of text.
• Lightweight
  Vim is a very lightweight editor, consuming minimal system resources, making it highly performant even on systems with lower specifications.
• Customizability
  Vim is highly configurable and extensible through plugins and user-defined settings, allowing users to tailor the editor to their specific needs.
• Ubiquity
  Vim is available on almost every Unix-like system and even on Windows, making it a ubiquitous tool that you can rely on being available in most environments.
• Support for Multiple Programming Languages
  Vim supports a wide range of programming languages out of the box and offers syntax highlighting, which can be enhanced through plugins.
• Powerful Search and Replace
  Vim offers robust searching and replacing functionalities, including support for regular expressions, which can be a powerful tool for developers.

Possible disadvantages

• Steep Learning Curve
  Vim's modal editing and extensive set of commands can be daunting for new users, requiring significant time and effort to master.
• Minimal Default Config
  The default configuration of Vim is quite minimalistic, which may necessitate additional setup and customization to meet modern development needs.
• Limited GUI
  Vim primarily operates in a terminal, and while there are graphical variants like GVim, they are not as feature-rich or user-friendly as modern GUI editors.
• Plugin Management
  While Vim is highly extensible, managing and configuring plugins can be cumbersome compared to more modern editors that offer integrated plugin management.
• Inconsistent Behavior Across Platforms
  There may be inconsistencies in behavior or available features of Vim across different operating systems, which can complicate its use in certain environments.
• Lack of Integrated Modern Features
  Vim lacks some modern IDE features like integrated debugging, advanced code introspection, and refined autocompletion, which often require third-party plugins to achieve.

• Production grade environments
  Connect your cloud account (AWS/GCP/Azure) and provision
• Auto provision cloud resources
  Provision resources like RDS databases, S3 buckets or SQS queues using simple .json declaration
• Security group automation
  Automate IAM/security groups
• Bring your own cloud (BYOC)
  Bring your own cloud and deploy services
• Deploy on customer cloud
  Deploy on customer cloud environments
• Automatic CI/CD
  In-built build and deployment pipeline - push code to Github or Gitlab branch to trigger automatic deployments
• Preview environments
  Create preview environments for pull requests
• Bring your CI/CD
  Connect your own CI/CD pipeline and trigger deployments via API
• Inbuilt observability
  Get pre-configured observability stack
• Open telemetry support
  Open telemetry support included
• Prometheus metrics
  Prometheus metrics scraper supported
• Standardised environments
  All environments are identical & managed kubernetes environments
• Automatic resource tagging
  All resources are named and tagged
• Auto Scaling
  Get auto-scaling enabled from day one
• Encryption at rest
  Volumes are always encrypted
• Encryption at transit
  Auto-renewing SSL certificates by default
• Encrypted secrets
  Encrypted secrets management
• Role based access
  Keyless role based access to your cloud resources by default

Possible disadvantages

• Cost
  While offering substantial features, LocalOps may be expensive for small businesses or startups, posing a significant investment for those with constrained budgets.
• Limited Customization
  Some users might find that LocalOps has limited options for customization, which could hinder businesses with highly specific operational needs.
• Learning Curve
  Despite its generally intuitive interface, some users may experience a learning curve as they adapt to the platform, especially when integrating with other tools.

What Vim Is and Why You Should Learn It

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• regular Vim has lua?!

  Lua is quite small, encouraging distros to include it. The ubuntu gvim has, and the gvim AppImage linked from vim.org does. The default Makefile from github is set up to not include it, but you can uncomment one line there to get it. Source: over 3 years ago

• is there a way to make highlighted text persistent after quit when using something like [match Search /\%'.line('.').'l/] ?

  I've not used vimwiki locally (tho I'm old enough to remember the Vim wiki on vim.org :), but I think what you are wanting to do is extend vimwiki's syntax file. I presume it installs one at $VIMRUNTIM/syntax or or ~/.vim/syntax. If... Source: almost 4 years ago

• vim.org - Is there a reason for this 1800s-esque design?

  Vim.org has 242k total visitors, tailwindcss.com has 4.4m, planetscale.com has 412k, jpl.nasa.gov has 2.6m, all built with Tailwind, all several years younger than Vim's website. Unnecessary comparison, unnecessary defence. It's a... Source: almost 4 years ago

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