I've noticed that (almost?) any talk about any editor in the last few years: emacs, vim, sublime, atom etc always brings up how good VS Code is.
It's a huge endorsement of VS code.
It's a huge endorsement of VS code.
Lousy macro support from the Vim emulator. Evil is still leaps-and-bounds above anything else (possibly Vim itself).
Flexibility of split windows. I like to view multiple files side-by-side. From my experience, Emacs and Vim have the best support for split panes; whereas VS Code and JetBrains editors have the worst.
VS Code has nothing like Magit. In my time with VS Code, I would keep Emacs open in another space for git.
In fact its not even remotely close.
I've been a full-time Vim user for the past decade (now NeoVim) but I've seriously considered switching, VSCode with vim mode turned on is truly fantastic, it's just not portable enough for my needs.
Not when starting up…
Important speed metrics for me are: Switching between buffers
Scrolling up/down a page (vim used to be terrible for me before i switched terminals to Kitty)
Substitutions
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