[ElectricalUnion]

I think that while it takes forever to boot up from cold, those monolith-style classic IDEs with their centralized caching (and most important, centralized AST caching) outrun (by a lot) those Language Server Protocol based text editors when you're jumping around and editing code.

Going around code is faster. Global search is faster. Autocomplete is faster. Refactoring is faster.

Using the Java Language Server Protocol in VS Code was very painful even for very trivial Java Spring Boot projects.

Granted, their boot and first pass of project analysis is really slow.

That being said I still use VS Code very often (as a cool text editor, not as IDE), and I have no clue how VS Code boots and feels so snappy when most other Electron apps that I use feel like unresponsive slow garbage.