Author and occasional IDE user, here. I am _very_ familiar with both my editor and my stack. This allows me to use Vim for 9X% of my work because a) there is b

Author and occasional IDE user, here. I am _very_ familiar with both my editor and my stack. This allows me to use Vim for 9X% of my work because a) there is basically no friction, and b) most of my actual programming happens _outside_ of the editor anyway. For example, I don't use autocompletion and the manual completion that I uses is mainly about saving typing and avoiding typos. I use documentation for API discovery, not autocompletion. I trust my editor 100% for the low-level stuff but I rarely need the kind of handholding provided by IDEs. And, for the rare occasions when I do (hello Kotlin code base), well I use an IDE.