> I don't particularly like vscode. It's heavy and slow and janky, particularly on older laptops. I don't like being sucked back into the Microsoft ecosystem after spending years getting away from it. But ultimately, I want to just get on with my job, and my job is not Lua Developer or Neovim Plugin Expert.
I've personally been test driving JetBrains Fleet and have to say that it's pretty okay for most of my lightweight dev needs: https://www.jetbrains.com/fleet/
It's still a bit early for it and it doesn't have the same ecosystem that VSC has, but it'll probably be even better in 1-5 years and is decent already.
For most of the more heavy work I just use JetBrains IDEs, but that's very clearly a no go for the less capable devices like my netbook.
For even lighter options, on Windows there is Notepad++, which has been okay although not an IDE.
I've personally been test driving JetBrains Fleet and have to say that it's pretty okay for most of my lightweight dev needs: https://www.jetbrains.com/fleet/
It's still a bit early for it and it doesn't have the same ecosystem that VSC has, but it'll probably be even better in 1-5 years and is decent already.
For most of the more heavy work I just use JetBrains IDEs, but that's very clearly a no go for the less capable devices like my netbook.
For even lighter options, on Windows there is Notepad++, which has been okay although not an IDE.
There's also CudaText, which feels quirky but has decent language support: https://cudatext.github.io/
Maybe even something like Geany is worth a look, depending on your needs: https://www.geany.org/