With recent integration of Copilot Chat in vscode, I’m less inclined to use Neovim or any terminal based editor. I think terminals had a time and place, but it’s time we moved on to tools that are more user friendly and provide better features.
This is far beyond just an opinion about text editors. The terminal isn't going anywhere. It's the fallback, or sometimes the only, interactive mode available. Many developers use both vscode and vim on a daily basis, including myself. I see them as the best editors in their respective environments.
The terminal is not an impediment to "better features", and "user friendliness" is purely a subjective matter.
I find VSCode deeply unfriendly to my preferred method of editing code, and I imagine VSCode users find vim, kakoune, and emacs similarly unfriendly to their preferred method of editing code. Nobody is wrong in their findings -- what one finds unfriendly is objectively true to them.
But to say that I find VSCode deeply unfriendly is it not the same as your implying that terminals preclude "better" features and user friendliness. I'm simply recognizing preference, while what what you're saying seems to discount my (and that of many others) preference.
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