Hello friends,
Today I started following a new series on YouTube, as well as put in some time learning Vim and C++.
Learning Curve
It's no surprise that VS Code and Vim differ quite a bit. There are many shortcuts and tricks that I'm just not smooth with yet. In a similar way, this reminds me of when I switched from using Adobe Premiere to DaVinci Resolve. At first things were clunky, I wasn't a fan of feeling like such a noob again. But with time I got faster, learned more tricks, customized it to my needs. Ultimately I was extremely happy with my switch and had it not been for my persistence to learn this new program, I would never know the immense pleasure I have with Resolve. I hope my switch to Vim proves as fruitful. I'm keeping track of the common commands, slowly learning how things work and how to translate things I did in VS Code. It's fun, and honestly the main thing I like about it is that it's built to be fully keyboard accessible. I hate having to use a mouse all the time and if it were possible I would just type everything I need. I hope I can achieve that in Vim.
C++ & Game Dev
So I'm following this new series, Creating an RPG. It's been incredibly informative, and while most of the early concepts are old news to me, I'm trying to see it as new. There are many similarities to C so I can guess at times what it would look like in C++. But I'm excited to get past some of the more lectur-ey bits and start developing a game. I have a ton to learn however since while VS Code handles a lot of lower level things for you, Vim does not. And I'm often at a loss trying to figure out what I don't know. It's an uphill battle but I'm not giving up.
So far I'm quite enjoying Vim, surprisingly the lack of autocomplete and prettier has not been a bother but instead a refreshing taste of coding. I hope to continue learning Vim, C++, and game development over the next few months. And then share with you all what I create next. Know yourself, where you lack, where you excel, what you need to succeed, because the road to victory is paved only by yourself, friend.