Switching from Vim to Intellij

I just find all jetbrains products run like molasses, even with a 12-core machine with 32GB ram. I work fairly quick, and get frustrated when my editor holds me up.

Surprised to hear about the crashing issues with typescript, but I don't have any experience there.

I use vim quite a lot, every day. I also use IntelliJ IDEA every day. And yes, there's a bit of mental switching I do, and every now and then I use vim navigation keys while in IDEA, but generally it works for me. Different tools for different jobs.

Then again, I have no trouble loading reasonably large documents in vim, so maybe I don't have mine quite as customized as the author.

BUT I relate to the feeling of not being quite sure that all of my customization are quite enough, of not using vim to its full potential. Or even 10% of its potential.

Vim has the advantage of being portable and installed everywhere. I can also create a new file quickly, easier than IJ.

IJ has great Perl support and, the main reason I use it, a sane integrated Git GUI, the only one I've been able to use without tearing my hair out.

Because I'm freegan, I also get free entertainment in the form of IJ's "basic" support for js, html, css.

For the moment I mostly code in Python and I settled with a very minimal setup:

1. Linting: python-mode. IMHO it provides very good linting out of the box

2. Completion: jedi-vim. Jedi for python is great. Even though with this minimal setup the completion is not asynchronous I still think it's great.

It took me some time and a recent pruning to actually arrive at this minimal setup. I totally feel it with the author that finding the right set of plugins in Vim can be a bit overwhelming.