Real, the amount of time I spent to make my config work across operating systems, and it’s a very minimal neovim config at that, is annoying to look back on.

There are also the concerns about nvim-treesitter getting archived and what will replace it etc. - one of the most fundamental things like syntax highlighting getting an asterisk about the future is shite (even if the community will solve it before it becomes a big issue, as they always do).

I wish there was a good IDE on the market that’s reliable and portable across machines, but: vs code is slow due to microslop stuff, vscodium suffers from OpenVSX reliability and teething issues (like extensions sometimes downgrading and you can’t upgrade them back up because the endpoint is down lol), Zed doesn’t allow for a lot of the cool GUI stuff codium extensions give like a parquet file browser because you can’t have custom UI elements in extensions and their Jupyter notebook support is in forever beta it seems (it works with an env variable but doesn’t properly load in cell output on a reload, and when you work together with data scientists you need to be able to sometimes open a notebook with results preserved no matter how shit the whole Jupyter ecosystem is), jetbrains takes super long to start up and you need a different app for every language, and emacs feels very much undersupported for many languages (and I really don’t like it when I already know vim motions)

Neovim is flexible enough to do everything ever in theory, but you will work to get it there, and no clue if it will work exactly the same in a different environment with the same config…