Hey hey lets take a step back. Why the ad hominem? Its a text editor, you have strong opinions about it, thats ok.

But wouldn’t you say that someone who has strong opinions about a text editor is also a nerd?

It might be a losing battle with scale. But can we please all try and make this platform have a little bit of civility?

IDEs have useful features like debuggers and lsp and documentation for sure, but why hate people for enjoying tinkering and setting things up the way they like them?

There are plenty of valid reasons not to want to use an ide: privacy, bloat, and lack of agency to nave a few.

I use both often at the same time: vim can be really great for looking at logs, and I need xCode and Android studio because of the way the ecosystems are currently set up.

Dude we live out of time nowadays. The mono culture is dead. You can listen to any music at any time. You can listen to modern music, then 19th century marches, then older modern stuff like JayZ, and just yesterday discovered “year of the cat” from like 50 years ago and it slaps. We are all closer for it, humanity ho!

Ahhh Hank Green why must you serve as my example:

Hmm didn’t consider AAVE. Off the top of my hear I can’t. Most occurrences of the mix up that I’ve seem have been in conversations at work, or news articles.

So datum would be a singular piece of data. But it gets confusing and varies based on what you’re talking about. If you have a database filled with n files, each having m ints, then you can say that each of these files is a datum of that database, but at the same time, each of these datum is data; with each of the ints being datum. But then each of the ints had multiple bits, so the ints themselves are data. So it depends which level you’re talking about.

There is an epidemic of people mixing up the usage of the words “is” and “are”. Use “are” as the general catchall word.

For third person singular subjects use “is”.

There is a game. There are games.

Uncountable things use “is”.

There is the forest. There are the trees.

Are there people? Is there a person.

Are we there yet. Is our destination close?

If the subject uses a definite number use “are”.

The team is going to the game.

The fourteen players are going to the game.

Our town has a Maytrix.

Blue olives? Ive only heard of green and black