I wish I could escape JS, Electron, and VSCod(ium). I’d do it the second I see a viable alternative. Unfortunately, there is no other GUI editor that would provide the features I want and my executive function says no every time I try to learn vim.

In particular, I write Go, so I need a bunch of tools to check my code as I write it (go-staticcheck, go vet, etc.), as well as an LSP (gopls) to do autocomplete and such. Of course, I could write code without it, but it allows me to write better code a lot faster.

Also, I write TinyGo for microcontrollers, in which case, I need to be able to automatically set the environment variables and flags of the aforementioned tools depending on the specific microcontroller I happen to be working on at the time, which is usually different for every project, and often changes in the middle of the project. This is handled in vscode by the TinyGo extension, which I have to download manually as I’m not using Microsoft’s telemetry-ridden VSCode.

The only useful alternative is JetBrains GoLand, which is not only proprietary, it uses Java, which means it is just as bloated and slow as VSCode.