While the community around developing open source plugins exists, it’s a lot smaller than other editors.The launch time is still longer than most editors.

Best Vim integration with an existing IDE I’ve ever seen. The Vim plugin can use normal Vim configuration files, but as far as I understand, it’s still a complete reimplementation of Vim that has had everything I’ve tried with it.Built-in features for most everything that users want.

Once launched, generally feels snappy and responsive.

These are high quality plugins that constantly improved with each release.

Plugins for nearly every popular language, most maintained by JetBrains themselves.

Even in 2015 the support for each language was top-notch and it continues to improve. Since 2015 the support for languages has grown, and each language has more autocomplete/smart features.

Nowadays I use it for Golang, JavaScript, C, and generally any other language I want to start a project in. I wrote an article almost 6 years ago comparing Node.js and JavaScript IDEs, however it has become painfully out of date with editors like Brackets and Nodeclipse on it! Here’s my new list for 2021, comparing IntelliJ vs VSCode vs Atom vs Sublime Text 3! First up: JetBrains IntelliJ Ultimate / WebStormīack in 2015 IntelliJ was the best IDE for Java and a great IDE for many other language. Neowire Comparing JavaScript and Node.js IDEs in 2021

Node.js atom vs visual studio code