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I'm gonna make such a claim with a straight face. I don't know if it's VSCode's vim emulation or what, but on every platform I've tried it on IntelliJ beats it, while VSCode is busy catching up to where my cursor is still after chaining like 2 vim commands.

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IntelliJ is slow to start up (though I've no idea why that would matter for an IDE). And when indexing and building it can be very demanding on machine resources.

But I've never found it slow in any respect that matters for doing actual work. For everything that matters (opening files, project-wide search/replace, refactoring, typing latency, looking up docs, code navigation etc) it's easily competitive with lightweight editors.

VSCode's vim plugin is pretty awful performance wise (I should know, I use it every day).

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