[srik]

Compared to the others neovim should theoretically be snappier. Could it be bogged down by 3rd party plugins or something? If so try to switch to the lazy.nvim plugin manager which does a great job of lazy loading plugins, but more importantly allows you to profile the startup time and tweak loading mechanisms until you find a desirable balance between loading plugins and startuptime.

[alwillis]

+1 for Lazy: https://github.com/folke/lazy.nvim

For me, Neovim has always been faster than VS Code and that was before switching to Lazy plugin manager.