Comment by verdverm

> 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)