Yeah, vim was invaluable when I worked in the semiconductor industry. Lots of perl, TCL, SKILL (a lisp dialect) and giant verilog netlists. Languages which don't really have proper IDEs or great all in one tooling.

Now I'm a webdev with everything written in typescript and just use Cursor (basically vscode) with the vim plugin. i miss the tab model from vim a lot, but apart from that the vim plugin is close enough.