I have never been fully satisfied with my VSCode setup (and I occasionally found it pretty slow).
So tell me, HN hive-brain - what should I use?
So I'd say try out text editors rather than IDES: Sublime (free to try out), vim, emacs, etc. They have enough options and plugins, etc. to make them really powerful.
Kinda funny that you have really good hardware and still found VS Code was slow at times. I imagine JetBrains costly subscription options are similar.
But c'mon, we all know vim is all you need.
That's a funny way to spell emacs.
But who am I kidding, I don't code. I could, but then who would waste all of my time reading HN?
A free option for java/kotlin is Jetbrains IDEA Community Edition, more commonly know as "IntelliJ" to the millions of developers who view paying for software as an injustice. Android Studio is merely a re-skin of it, with lots of Android-specific extensions.
Also it's interesting that you find VSCode slow. At least on Mac, I feel like JetBrains is usually less performant.
Also, check out https://www.kdevelop.org/
brew tap d12frosted/emacs-plus
brew install emacs-plus