I’ve tried to learn Vim in the past but IMO it is not worth it at all. In a world without multiple cursors… sure, maybe. With multiple cursors? No way. I can can edit just as fast as I’ve seen any Vim user do it, and without having to remember a gazillion mnemonics and deal with the silly modal thing.

Multiple cursor editing even has some significant advantages over Vim style, e.g. it’s interactive, so you can do your edit gradually and go back if you make a mistake. Rather than having to write a complex command and only finding out it if works at the end. (If you’ve used regex find & replace you’ll understand that problem.)

I’ll probably get downvoted for this since Vim is kind of a cult, and Vim users get a sense of superiority from it. Kind of like audiophiles - they don’t appreciate it if you tell them their £10k valve amp doesn’t actually sound any better than your £1k digital amp.

For editing on remote computers I use VSCode remote or Micro for quick tasks.

I’m not sure you read my comment at all…

That’s not true. See https://barcankirby.co.uk/two-year-rule-for-employment-rights/

There are dozens of circumstances where an employee can claim automatic unfair dismissal, or where a worker thinks they have been unfairly dismissed or mistreated due to their protected characteristics which could lead to an additional unlawful discrimination claim.

The general fear of litigation means that in practice it is really hard to get rid of underperforming employees in most white collar jobs (once they have passed probation which is normally 3 months). The normal way it happens is they are “managed out”, which is a long and unpleasant process.

A couple of possible reasons:

1. If it’s a new company with fewer standards then more niche products become more viable. I don’t know exactly what the situation at Pebble was but if they took lots of VC funding they can’t turn around and say “ok we’re just going to trundle along with this niche watch that is loved, but only by a few people”. A small company can do that.

2. Advertising / brand awareness. Pebble was very well known, but if you make some random alternative nobody is even going to learn of your existence. This attempt is using the actual Pebble code and it’s run by the ex-Pebble people.

3. Don’t underestimate the software effort. Now that they have most of the code, resurrecting it is a lot easier.

Having said that, I would probably put my money on them doing a Kickstarter (which will do very well based on nostalgia), delivering a product that can’t really compete with modern smart watches, and then slowly fading into the night. Hope not but I won’t hold my breath. (I can’t really wear watches anyway so it doesn’t really affect me.)

He definitely improved it… but there’s still plenty of material for r/linusrants.

He may not directly call people names anymore but he’s still extremely rude and unprofessional. He would have been fired long ago from any company I work for, and I live in the UK where it’s practically impossible to get fired.

At the time it made way more sense because the “traditional” smart watches were way worse. Not even one day battery life. I would say Pebble still wins on size though - actually normal watch sized.

As for why they didn’t catch on… Probably a little bit ahead of their time, and also less shiny.

Probably what all the horse people said when cars were invented.

pointing and saying “this is shit. Look at this shit”

Yeah you only get to do that if you’re Linus 😄

His point could be valid, if C was working fine and Rust didn’t fix it. But C isn’t working fine and Rust is the first actual solution we’ve ever had.

He’s just an old man saying we can’t have cars on the road because they’ll scare the horses.