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I also find intellij idea (and friends) too heavy. I am using it only when developing java or kotlin because the experience is much better than anything else, d

I also find intellij idea (and friends) too heavy. I am using it only when developing java or kotlin because the experience is much better than anything else, despite the slowness. For anything else (python, js, elixir) I use VSCode with a careful selection of plugins. It works very nice even on my Thinkpad T420. I agree with the people that said that if you install a lot of plugins (lsp etc) on a bare bones editor it will feel very slow; I had exactly this experience using vim on Windows: Using it as a text editor with only a few plugins (fzf etc) was great but when I started using is more like an IDE the experience wasn't that good anymore resulting in choosing VSCode instead.

dmitriid 4y ago
> For anything else (python, js, elixir) I use VSCode with a careful selection of plugins. I find JetBrains IDEs to be significantly better at Python and JS/TS (they do have dedicated IDEs for them after all). I wish Elixir support wasn't just one guy from Jetbrains working on it in spare time though...
- mdaniel 4y ago
  > I wish Elixir support wasn't just one guy from Jetbrains working on it in spare time though... Better that than the travesty they did to the intellij-hcl plugin, where they .. hired? in-housed? I don't even know what they did to that plugin except completely and utterly broke it and made updates to it go into this weird black hole