>especially for things to "Go To Symbol" where it works almost instantly whereas I'm constantly waiting for VSCode to stop spinning and give up and cmd-f search

>especially for things to "Go To Symbol" where it works almost instantly whereas I'm constantly waiting for VSCode to stop spinning and give up and cmd-f search instead. "Go to symbol" isn't implemented by the IDE though. Neither Sublime Text nor VSCode provide that feature. Plugins do. What you're probably experiencing is that Sublime Text tends to have less intelligent language servers. Which means they're faster, because they're not scanning your whole project, or because they're not using the official language server. I've written my own language server so I know firsthand that any UI delay is entirely my fault, not VSCode.