I'll take that bet

No need to guess, the SO survey is probably still representative of the state of development environments:

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology#1-dev-id-es

Note that respondents may use multiple tools, but around 76% answered VSCode, whereas 24% answered Vim.

So, I’d wager you’re indeed in a *nix bubble.

The SO survey was skewed to begin with, and by 2025 it covers a much reduced fraction of past users. See:

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/437921/1593077

Not that your conclusion is necessarily wrong of course.

That is so different than I expected. Thank you for the link.

It's more indicative of the state of SO users.

Care to bet even those 24% vim devs code circles around the VSCode ones?

That's no sure thing - plenty of vim users are new or not particularly knowledgeable, they just chose their village' for various reasons.

> but I'd bet good money that Emacs/Vim users outnumber VSCode users by an order of magnitude

No, no they don't. Enterprise and gaming alone would easily invalidate your bet.