Comment by nartho
7 days ago
It seems like you might have missed the gap between vi and modern terminal based development. Neovim with plugins is absolutely amazing and integrated, there are even options like Lazyvim that do all the work for you. I took the opposite journey and went from IDE to Neovim and I'm glad I did. vs code is a bunch of stuff badly cobbled together in a web app, running in Electron. It's a resource hog and it gets quite slow in big projects. Neovim had a much higher learning curve but is so much more powerful than vs code or even jetbrain stuff in my opinion and so much snappier too
> It seems like you might have missed the gap between vi and modern terminal based development.
No, I used neovim and spent way too much time trying to turn it into an IDE, even with the prepackaged setups out there
VS Code is sitting below 5% CPU and 1G of memory, not seeing the resource hog you are talking about. LSPs typically use more resources (which is outside and the same for both)