Comment by wilkystyle

This is a great question! It's also a really hard one to answer.

When newer developers come to me looking for a recommendation of an editor to use, I don't often recommend Neovim, and I pretty much never recommend Emacs. I do recommend learning Vim motions, however, and my go-to is VS Code with the vscode-neovim plugin (uses actual nvim binary under the hood—no crappy emulation slowness/inaccuracies!)

For me personally, I've never met a situation where my Neovim or Emacs configuration couldn't handle a refactor or some other thing an IDE does. And then with all the other things like search/navigation (Consult+Orderless in Emacs is unparalleled) and working with files, git, or the filesystem (dired-mode in emacs, Oil.nvim for Neovim)... I'm just so much faster in one of those two editors than I am in any IDE. The ability to do everything you need in a single tool using the same paradigm and keybindings and concepts to get all of it done is pretty powerful.

I do also have a nervous aversion to using products that are not fully open source. Probably an OCD fear of losing full control over my editing and development experience.