Same experience here, but as a Vim and IntelliJ user. I can edit a single file or a few buffers in Vim maybe twice as fast as I can in IntelliJ. However, I can

Same experience here, but as a Vim and IntelliJ user. I can edit a single file or a few buffers in Vim maybe twice as fast as I can in IntelliJ. However, I can navigate through a codebase 5x as fast, which means that when I’m doing anything that requires an understanding of parts of the codebase I haven’t memorized (95% of it), my IDE is speeding up my development by nearly 5x. I used to try out Vim binding plugins every six months or so, until I realized that my IDE is forcing me to adopt a kind of hammock-driven-development, by being significantly faster at codebase comprehension while being significantly slower at codebase manipulation. With Vim I would never clone of a repo of a compiled 3rd party dependency in order to understand the dependency. I’d be forced to read through its repo on GitHub, since Vim’s speed-up of navigating through unfamiliar code is marginal. But with IntelliJ, I always clone the repo, create a project, and in a short time find the knowledge I’m looking for.