There are some core features that work so much better out of the box than with the best plugins in others.

Local History (or even for a selection) with search, stacked clipboard, recent locations, how good search is in general (text, symbols, actions etc), how in-modal buffers work, debugging experience, version control merging experience, etc etc

Old now fixed complaints:

- making plugins used to be awful

- used to have no lsp support

(Was pleasantly surprised when I built ron-lsp [1] plugin)

Long standing complaints:

- it's heavy and slow

- has weird failure modes

All that being said, still my main IDE, with neovim (well configured) used frequently.

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[1]: https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/ron-lsp/tree/main/jetbrains-...