@hansw@mastodon.social Well thats the thing. You can build one with nice code highlighting, project tree, the works.. But either it takes a lot of effort to get all the bits working, or it still falls short.

Even with a lot of time spent getting vim to where you want it spacemacs gives me all that out of the box and makes maining conrfiguration a breeze. Its hard for me to see any reason to go with vim over spacemacs at this point and I'm not sure I've seen a vim yet that has the nice powerline status bad spacemacs has.