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by lagolinguini 1068 days ago
> I don't particularly like vscode. It's heavy and slow and janky, particularly on older laptops. I don't like being sucked back into the Microsoft ecosystem after spending years getting away from it. But ultimately, I want to just get on with my job, and my job is not Lua Developer or Neovim Plugin Expert.

Personally I've started paying for intellij and using it with it's vim emulation. I know it doesn't solve the problem of being clunky on older laptops, but it is an amazing experience to use. I get the best of both worlds, I get really good vim emulation so I don't have to relearn editor shortcuts, I get the benefits of a modern full fledged IDE with many useful features that work out of the box with basically 0 configuration (debugger, git, tasks, etc.)
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ibrarmalik 1068 days ago
Same. I like it better than the vscode vim emulation, which is more “strict” and turns to the visual mode when selecting anything with the cursor. Which I personally think is the worse part of vim.
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jcpst 1068 days ago
Intellij IDEs for my day job are awesome.

I do have a personal all-products license as well, but I hesitate to go “all in” and be dependent on them.

But it is ok to just use a lot of editors for different things. VS Code is ‘good enough’ a lot times. I like writing notes in emacs org-mode. NeoVim on the command line. Sometimes I use Helix, I think it hits a sweet spot between snappiness and minimal configuration.

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