VSCode is slower than vim, this is true. So are Xcode, Visual Studio and MonoDevelop, so it's hard to say that being native would automatically fix it. But at t

VSCode is slower than vim, this is true. So are Xcode, Visual Studio and MonoDevelop, so it's hard to say that being native would automatically fix it. But at the same time, VS Code is doing more for syntax highlighting than out of the box vim, and heavily plugin modified vim can get slow too. I can't say search and replace has ever taken a noticeable amount of time for me, on all my projects and devices it's perceptually instsnt, unless I'm doing a project wide search and forgot to exclude node_modules or something, a performance problem vim avoids by... not having project wide search.