[worksonmine]

> People praise vim/neovim for being small but to get any decent functionality you will end up with tons of plugins.

If a writer compares VSCode to Word and claims exporting as PDF is "decent functionality" making VSCode a useless tool does he even understand what he's looking at?

You have the same language servers as VSCode, GDB is integrated and works really well. On top of that you have the entire OS and unix philosophy at your fingertips. Even with vanilla vim I have many more features than I ever had with VSCode and the likes.

It's not all about buttons and pretty dropdrowns. I agree the discoverability could be better, but that's a necessary compromise for making just about anything you'd like to do possible.