I like jetbrains IDEs and pay for a personal subscription, but after switching to a highly configured neovim it’s hard to use the IDE for primary development.

I still go back to it for major refactors and gnarly merges, because the LSPs from jetbrains are unparalleled. But as a result of their features it is incredibly laggy and slow compared to neovim, not to mention so RAM-heavy.

After adjusting to such high quality and fast nvim plugins like telescope, it makes the jetbrains editor feel like I’m moving through molasses to do a project-wide search, for example. And the vim simulation doesn’t (can’t?) support some of the more advanced features, or some really great plugins.

The biggest difference is in individual key latency though, I notice regular stutters while typing in the jetbrains IDEs that just don’t exist in nvim. It just throws me off if I’m in the flow typing and the input just freezes for a couple hundred ms..