Because we haven't come up with anything better. Neovim, Vim, or Emacs combined with Unix make a better IDE than an IDE. With a fuzzy finder, Neovim start up i

Because we haven't come up with anything better. Neovim, Vim, or Emacs combined with Unix make a better IDE than an IDE. With a fuzzy finder, Neovim start up in milliseconds and can scale to projects with several thousand files, complete with documentation, symbols, reference jumping, and refactoring. An IDE just turns my laptop into a space heater with minimal configurability and fewer features. In other words, I am investing more battery life for a weaker program. If I need to use someone else's computer (or a container), I can run Vim with my config file right in the terminal and never notice the difference. The features I need: 1. FOSS 2. A reasonable amount of battery, CPU, and memory usage. The editor should not bring a browser/JVM with it. Browsers eat RAM and need to be restarted within a couple days of uptime, and the JVM kills the battery. 3. Cross-platform; should work on Linux and BSD. 4. Should scale to large projects with thousands of files. 5. Should support advanced features with something like the Language Server Protocol. 6. Minimal UI and keyboard-driven; screen space is often limited, and I hate the mouse with a passion. Vim and Emacs are the only editors I have ever used that have all of the above features. Nothing else comes close.