The landscape of plugins and integrations that VisualStudio Code has created is really cool but it's getting harder and harder to legitimize running that beast given its resource consumption. Even with few plugins and small-ish file sizes it's not a snappy experience.
And while I like vim and still use it a lot on servers and for quick editing, I do think that GUI editors/IDEs can bring a lot to the table. I guess I'll really have to start looking at native GUI editors soon ...
@tante I am still trying to find the time to look what the sublime editor is doing today. In the past I used it and it was great with a native gui and extensibility via a Python API.
@tante every time I am fed up with VSCode for the reasons you mentioned I switch to my neovim editor. It stay there for a few days and then eventually switch back. Neovim really made vim better (for me!)
@tante I started switching from vscode to zed for most of my projects which aren't typescript-only (for those we use webstorm). Zed is pretty fast, but at times still a bit buggy and there are not that many plugins. But for my tech stack it works very well and very fast.
@tante Absolutely honest suggestion: keep using vim, learn Emacs (with vim bindings) and use Emacs for anything non-trivial because it is probably the best power horse you can have in the long run.
I'm using vim + Emacs (even with native bindings each) for decades.
@tante Speaking about nice GUI/IDE editor there was one really nice and easy to use but when MS took over it. They just make a mess ....... now the project is closed and it was Monodevelop which was a nice C# IDE for linux. It got banished but thanks to god some developers took the code and they are make it better. Speaking about VS Code, I just think it is just a mess.
@monsieurborni yeah but I'd have to install half of KDE and that's quite a steep price for an editor
@tante Have you already taken a look at zed (very recent, fast, written in rust) or LazyVim (vim-based IDE with bells and whistles, based on NeoVim)?
