Critique of the post: The belief that LSP are implemented in the compiler is mostly plain wrong. They might or might not be maintained by the same team as the l

Critique of the post: The belief that LSP are implemented in the compiler is mostly plain wrong. They might or might not be maintained by the same team as the language team but are almost always a separate library that interface through the compiler through APIs. Yes compiler have became much more queryable. Intellij has had a technology similar to LSP (and much more complete) a decade before it's "invention" and do leverage compiler APIs. Which btw allow intellij to support LSP (apparently) https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/10209-lsp-support https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/10209-lsp-support The only point here is: Vscode has better and earlier support for niche technologies This does not at all outweight the tremendous gap between vscode support for non-niche technologies versus the excellence of intellij support of non-niche technologies, it's two different worlds comparing them is proof of pure ignorance. The point on code with Me is nonsensical, vscode (and atom before through teletype) supported real time pair programming before, jetbrains is here playing catch-up (for once) However the point on Electron enabling better rendering performance is actually true, skia is just the fastest 2D renderer to exists and it's time for people to understand that objectively on this aspect native gui toolkits are obscolete. This is why JetBrains has made skia bindings for Java and develop jetpack compose for desktop which Wil enable them to reuse the chromium rendering engine (skia) for Intellij IDEs while allowing their frontend to be in jvm languages (which are multiple time faster than js) However I believe that skia alone isn't enough and a lot of engineering effort must be made to match the chromium rendering performance (cf the various flutter performance issues(yes Ionic has faster rendering)) One must understand that adding more features does not equal making intellij slower, given enough engineering resources. Actually intellij IDEs are quite fast nowadays and it improve regularly. Regarding the github.com argument for Microsoft: It's simple, intellij has perfect support for github, you can create pull request from the IDE and the only remaining improvements to make should not make a huge difference.