| I'm in almost the same boat. Speed absolutely matters, but you only notice it when you don't have it. I'm working on a large Dart project and a long time ago someone thought that having the project split up into 100 packages would be a great idea (it's not). My previous editor was IntelliJ as I am used to its keyboard shortcuts, but it struggled with our setup: constant freezes and even if it didn't freeze, it would take seconds until the suggestions came up (or when I wanted to rename a local variable, smh). I was so frustrated by it, that I installed helix, it was fast so I'm now learning to use it as my daily driver. I have now both open, doing my editing on helix, and if I feel like I can go something faster in IntelliJ (which now happens less and less often), I do that little thing in IntelliJ and come back to helix. Why helix: it's "great by default" and I didn't have much success with setting up and customizing NeoVim (it didn't feel good, the plugin were annoying to learn, and it started to slow down). I'm sure it a skill issue, but helix just works for me, and I can live without plugins for now. |