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As the author points out, it does depend on the language. I switched to vim "full-time" when moving to a Go team. (Prev Java).

Java is a language that does not lend itself to vim. Even just compiling and running a sufficiently large java program can be a pain without an IDE setup.

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Neovim + LSP for C# development worked really great (until I ran into a Roslyn bug...). You might consider that an "IDE" though.

Editor/IDE is, ahem, a spectrum, not a binary.

Much holy warring ensues from people forgetting this ;)

Same. I would very much like to use a text editor full-time given how strapped for resources my machine is, but I work on either Java or Angular 90% of the time. The productivity loss is too much to deal with, and the solution is to add a bizarre number of plugins to the editor to the point that it becomes somewhat of an IDE itself, without the guarantee that the plugins will interact well with each other.

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