Comment by troupo

> I do believe that for some use cases, like a person who unfortunately only works with Java or Android,

Your bias is showing through :)

If people had less bias and actually looked at what an IDE can and does offer, they wouldn't be dismissive with "oh, if we just add these 12 plugins and an integration, then for this on particular language we may have a full IDE" (in actuality, a subset of a subset of all features an IDE offers).

> With one plugin (Ale) which takes one line of config, you get an actual IDE that can auto-detect LSPs which offers refactoring, code actions, etc. that is the exact same you would get in an IDE.

Looking at the "huge" list of features that Ale lists consisting of 6 very basic things, I again see that people who use vim have never ever in their life used a proper IDE.

> and so having an editor that works without indexing is a huge plus.

This I can actually agree with :) Indexing is often such a pain