[zitterbewegung]

The article only makes the claim that they have made it faster that the previous technique. Most people say VSCode is faster than other electron editors like Atom. I am not sure who has said that VSCode is faster than Vim and it would be safe to assume that Vim would be faster.

[nerdponx]

Vim syntax highlighting is painfully slow on long lines, which makes it unusable as a Markdown or Tex editor unless you enable automatic explicit line breaking at 80 or 150 characters, instead of letting paragraphs wrap naturally.