I've been coding professonally for around 10 years ( plus 4 year degree ), did the vim thing for the first 7, switched to emacs for the next 2, and I finally gave up the ghost and switched to vscode this year.<p>I disagree completely with point #2. My emacs and vim environments were way more complicated to maintain with the same level of functionality. Coding without autocomplete is an exercise in frustration. The tools are out there, they are mature, use them. They make you a better coder.<p>VSCode has been so delightfully BORING and USABLE, I do not see myself going back. The VIM keybindings have been good enough.<p>However, I HAVE been eyeing the intellij products... if a FREE product is this good, and all my friends are raving about intellij... maybe there is something there.<p>I also have an OniVim2 license, but we will see if that ever becomes more than vaporware.
Trying to turn vscode into an IDE is awful in my opinion. You have to use a lot of third-party extensions that not so rarely goes unmaintained or are security issues waiting to happen. It's the same agony I get from languages without a solid stdlib. And if you're really going to use MS tools you're better of with vscodium or whatever people are using these days that remove the "extra" features.
> I am still a young 22 year old fresh out of school<p>At 43, spending as much time in architecture and infrastructure as a code editor, optimizing my editor barely moves the needle. If I was still spending 6-12 hours a day pounding the keys I'm sure I'd feel differently.