Not to mention the productivity increase from having a blazing fast editor that just gets out of the way. Even on my beefy laptop, intellij products feel clunky and slow
I’m amazed. I’ve been using Vim for, oh I don’t even want to count how many, years. My .vimrc is constantly improving. To the point where I ask myself how healthy the obsession/addiction is.
I don’t think I’ll ever make up in efficiency for the time I’ve spent tinkering. But it sure is fun. Mostly.
I’m still quite good at stock Vim though. Specially since recent distros have been shipping a much saner default .vimrc
I have to concede that this _was_ my experience until about a year ago. I can recall spending many evenings and even some lunches reading and experimenting with vim configuration improvements. I too wondered if the time would pay off.
Vim has been my main editor for 8 years. About a year ago I started to notice that I was no longer spending much time at all changing my configuration; however, I was aggressively deleting plugins and complex (most-unused) key-bindings.
These were replaced with intrinsic key-bindings that I didn't previously know about they were replaced with more modern and simpler plugins. I suspect this will get even better once adopt Ale and plug.
The smaller config is oddly satisfying. I'm happy that I've stuck with Vim as it continues to provide me with a full-service experience, while getting faster, not slower, yet my config continues to get more minimalist.
I don't think there is anything out there that compares, but it's an investment and YMMV.
I'm not sure I would trust jetbrains - it's closed source and I don't know what data they're phoning home, or telemetry. With vim at least I have the possibility to audit. With a closed source product, it's way harder.
Nothing updates unless you do it, but then once the update is done you can optionally go through the commit log of each plugin and even revert back specific commits if you don't like what you see.
To me that's a much better model than "hi, I see you opened your code editor, let me auto-update these 10 plugins for you. Hopefully things work out for you!".
IMO the user (you) should be in total control over when things get updated. This goes for the editor itself and your OS too. Otherwise you have no idea what the state of your system will be the next day.