When I first started coding in high school and then later in early college I used to jump around between editors a lot more than I do today. I used Notepad++, then Visual Studio, briefly Netbeans, then Atom.
But since settling into frontend web development I've stayed with VSCode for a very long time. I liked it because it was straightforward to get started with, but versatile enough to extend for other languages. Between various jobs and projects I used it for Javascript, Java, C#, Rust, and C - and it did admirably at pretty much all of these.
But about a year ago I saw that VSCode had a Neovim plugin, and I was intrigued. I'd wanted to get more familiar with Vim beyond the basic hjkl navigation, and this seemed like a great way to do that!
So for the last year and change I've had the vscode-neovim plugin installed, and I've been really enjoying it!
I quickly fell in love with visual block mode, or the "delete N words" commands. They're just so handy I suddenly felt like they were missing if I needed to edit code any other way!
But over the weekend I made the jump from using Neovim inside VSCode to using it more or less on its own. I saw a video that mentioned the AstroNvim configuration framework and Neovide, and decided "yeah, I think I want to try that", and a few days later . . . here we are.
Overall, surprisingly well.
I've figured out how to get ESLint and Prettier configured for work, rust-analyzer installed for my own projects, I've been poking at themes over and over again, and honestly . . . I'm really liking this.
Getting Neovide to connect to a VM over the network was relatively straightforward, I love how easy it is to drop my config into git and keep it synced between computers, and finally having proper mouse support (which I never could get sorted out with my terminal) is a pretty big game changer for when I'm just reading code.
Also, I'd be lying if I said that I didn't love the smooth scrolling and cursor animation. I am a simple girl after all.
That is a tricky question to answer.
I was comfortable spending some time experimenting with this because I already had decent familiarity with Vim and had been using Neovim specifically for a while. If you don't have any similar experience, the learning curve is going to be pretty steep.
But hey - if you're looking for a challenge, you'll definitely learn a lot.