Edit: honestly, for real, some of the anger that I'm getting back here for just asking a question about whether you would even bring this up is making me consider giving up on this subreddit. I literally say I don't think this is worth bringing up in a paragraph below. I feel like we should be able to disagree with each other like professionals. I'm getting downvoted when I agree with people. I'm getting downvoted when I clarify things about the situation that people misunderstand. It's not constructive.

I have a co-worker that's using some flavor of vim for code editing and it's so painful to watch them struggle through it. Other coworkers are struggling to do some pretty basic stuff in VS Code. Meanwhile I've been using webstorm for years and I can do just about anything I need to in a quarter of the time.

On the one hand it's none of my business. On the other hand I'm the one who's in the audience watching them deal with errors because they didn't type the right vim* command. I mean, know the tool you chose seems to be a basic rule to me...

I don't think it's worth bringing up but if any of you have run into this and have advice on a path that would actually be productive here that involves me not having to watch somebody struggle with a tool that is cryptic, please share.