[osdiab]

I develop on a 2018 dual core 16GB RAM MacBook Air, which is a lot crappier spec-wise than your gaming rig (but not crappy enough that text editing ought to be a problem). Often typing in VSCode on a large TypeScript project can take hundreds of milliseconds to register my keystrokes, which may have to do with the machine being overloaded by too many Electron apps (switching from Chrome to Firefox as my main browser already feels better), or maybe it’s that the Typescript language daemon or an errant extension is doing too much work - whatever it is, I haven’t figured it out, and dropping in some replacement text editor that claims to be fast might be a quicker way to get my dev setup more tolerable than my current experience.

I recently got Neovim working with nvim-typescript but I would be lying if I didn’t say I missed the nice UI/UX of VSCode, nor that I’m annoyed at having to spend so much time configuring my editor and memorizing shortcuts instead of actually getting things done.

So to answer your question I think part of it is that my machine is just worse than yours, and part of it is that editing text is often doing more than just editing text - in my case keystrokes trigger static analysis of a large project.

[geitir]

Did you try sublime? Also try running bootcamp because my personal conspiracy theory is Apple only optimizes their releases for the latest hardware