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Enlighten us, I am missing the point I guess. I'm way more productive with VS Code than Neovim until I fully configure Neovim to have syntax highlighting, LSP integration, file search and so many other plugins. I don't think IDEs eat productivity, my only gripes with them are resource consumption, which I can fix to a certain degree, and decentralization overhead, when the IDE is language-specific.


Resource consumption and based around non-ergonomic setups is mostly why I've rejected IDEs as along as they've existed.

If I want an IDE, I'll continue doing what I do: tmux, with vim in one or more panes, bash in one or more panes.


VScode sometimes shows me the wrong file for the function definition (very nasty also when it's the 'right' file from the wrong git worktree).

Remote view loose all the opened tabs very often.

Once, I suspected a bug in the logger due to truncated traces but it was VScode which truncated the line (nedit a very old editor didn't have this issue).

Also I had regularly to ask my colleague to stop it's VScode because it was using >30GB of RAM, fortunately this doesn't happen anymore either VScode or its plugin is fixed or she has given up configuring as an IDE I don't know.

And no CLion isn't better C++ IDEs sucks..


VS Code is kind of the ideal example of an IDE because it's not an IDE until you want it to be, in the precise ways you want it to be.


How do you open a grid with 6 files using keyboard only in your IDE? I assume it's possible.


Using the same exact commands as in Vim: `:vsplit` and `:split`




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