It’s the small latencies that add up for me. I usually use a tmux + nvim setup, but for codebases that require a bit more language server support (eg. C++20 and sometimes Rust), I have a VS Code setup with the nvim plugin that I’ve spent way too many hours tweaking hot keys and things.

Despite all my tweaking, VSCode sometimes just feels like it’s a beat behind, and keyboard commands get dropped in the transition between panes and such. Even just scrolling with nvim keybinds feels a bit off. My key repeat rate is fairly high, and I’ll hold down ^D to skim through a source file. VSCode’s renderer struggles to keep up smoothly sometimes.

This is all nitpicky stuff, not enough for me to swear off VSCode or anything. But it’s just annoying enough that every once in a while I end up in some rabbit hole of VSCode internals and css tweaks, instead of doing actual work. Most coding does not require a ton of bouncing around, but it does feel very liberating to have confidence in my inputs as I navigate around.