[jeremyjh]

I did that same circuit (except it was emacs to VS Code) for me - same experiences and reasons. I also used CLion for a couple of years for C++ - but in that case I never even bothered trying to use anything else. I could not get the bindings quite how I wanted in either VS Code or CLion, but I made it tolerable eventually.

I'm on neovim now, and the reason is coding agents. It ported my Spacemacs bindings to Astrovim in a few minutes.

Any feature I need to add, I just tell it and its done in a couple of minutes. Anytime I run into something that doesn't work quite how I want, I just tell the agent and boom, done.

I manage all my dotfiles this way now I think it totally changes the calculus. I'm even considering giving Nix another go.