this editor is exceptional at loading files which are gigabytes in size. nothing else I've ever used comes close.
How about Sublime Text? That’s mostly my use case. Opening giant files that VSCode can’t, Ctrl-F a regex expression, selecting all matches, and pasting them into a new buffer. Like a visual interactive grep. Sublime handles big files pretty well but I’ve still managed to make it chug on occasion.
I thought it was the nature of dealing with large text files. I wonder why my experience with Sublime has been so bad.
The context of my use is dealing with gigantic log files/json files doing digtal forensics for the purpose of discovering malicious activity. I also use grep and a ton of other tools but sometimes when you aren't looking for a particular thing and you're just looking for weird stuff the best way to explore the data is with the raw files and a text editor. Unfortunately the editors I've used are painfully slow when the file sizes are large.