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Neovim can be configured to practically become an IDE, complete with code analysis, refactoring tools, and AI assistants.

It'll also become as slow as an IDE, though. I think it's the Arch Linux (or maybe the Gentoo) of IDEs, where you have to know and configure every subcomponent of your IDE yourself.

I have tweaked my Neovim for small code snippets where a full IDE is overkill, but I can't be bothered to turn it into a full IDE like some others do.

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And that's the USP of JetBrains IDEs. You don't have to spend days to configure your editor/IDE until it works for you. Just pick the right flavor for your favorite language and start working on your actual code.

In honesty, I love pycharm today. 8 years or so ago I didn't so much.

Also, goland isn't terrible either. It's really the only way to write go beyond say 1000 lines of code.

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