IDE vim support suffers from three problems. First, performance. I have yet to try an IDE that can match the responsiveness of vim. You can obviously tank vim’s

IDE vim support suffers from three problems. First, performance. I have yet to try an IDE that can match the responsiveness of vim. You can obviously tank vim’s performance with plugins, but you don’t have to. Second: clutter. Modern displays are gigantic, and yet most IDE users don’t have more than 40 lines of code on the screen at a time. The rest is occupied by a file picker, command palette, integrated terminal, LLM chat interface, and so forth. You have to go to some effort to reclaim those pixels; big context is not yours by default. Third: uncanny valley effect. Vim implementation is usually incomplete, especially when it comes to ex-style colon-prefixed commands. It’s jarring to run into a spot where your muscle memory doesn’t work. In short, IDE vim support does not measure up to the experience of using the real thing.