Awesome work, I love the speed. What it needs is a useable vim plugin, otherwise, it would be too difficult to use regularly, or for any real work. BTW, I also appreciate that it's cross- platform and runs on linux.
Contributor to the VSC Vim extension here. I've been working on it frantically over the last few weeks and I'd strongly recommend giving it another try. I believe it's made some big strides in usability.
And obviously creating issues on the github repo for things you're missing is a big help for me. I try to have a fast turnaround on these things.
Missing from (or aside) this vim plugin is ex mode, similar to this[0]. I read that this is out of scope with the project, but being able to build it as another plugin could be great. This is the approach taken by vim-mode/ex-mode on Atom.
This is very true. I let my own usage patterns and github issues be a guide to what I do next. I don't use ex mode very much, outside from simple substitutions, and I haven't gotten any issues yet either.
I remember reading that the Atom Vim authors believed separating the two was a mistake; they were too intertwined. As much as I'd like to have it be a separate project and not think about it, apparently that doesn't work so well...
And obviously creating issues on the github repo for things you're missing is a big help for me. I try to have a fast turnaround on these things.