[leoh]

> As a pragmatic programmer, one of the rules is Know thy tools.

Dunno what you’re trying to say with respect to the broader conversation (though I don’t take issue with any of your points, really).

When I say IntelliJ “just works” I hope it’s obvious I’m not just using it as a text editor ;). On the contrary, it is an incredibly powerful tool (I just remembered I forgot to mention shelving — yet another wonderful feature).

Because I’ve spent countless hours with it, I mean it “just works” for doing incredibly sophisticated things that VSCode and nvim hardly approach (let alone with consistency between languages supported by Jetbrains) without an insane amount of time configuring ime.

Yea, you can get good at the configuring, say, with nvim; and it can be fascinating. I am a tools guy. But again, if I want to create X today, futzing with getting the perfect bespoke nvim environment is simply not to my taste.

My point isn’t that my taste is “better”, but more an attempt to say “just use nvim” is not preferable for many folks in many situations.

[skydhash]

I agree with you. I’m not a purist pushing “Unix as a IDE”. I reach to Intellij, Android Studio, and Xcode when the needs arise. I’m saying that a lot of people got confused and try to replicate vs code in neovim, lending to a fragile setup. The correct approach is ground up, maybe taking inspiration from others configs. But everything in your config should be understood.

The same applies to all the tools you use, may it be Intellij, or your shell.