Lunar Vim

It's the tons of customizations that'll get you there. For me, neovim is miles better than vs code post customization. The juice is worth the squeeze, but most people will never taste it.

You can set up nvim with autocompletion and even tabnine ai, it gets real close to an IDE... Still I started using pycharm recently. Not nearly as cool but more functional. That said, if I see similar news about pycharm snooping I will go right back to nvim.

Got it, I understand you. The learning curve in the beginning is demotivating, specifically if you just want to get something done quickly.