Neovim
Neovim is a modal text editor forked off of Vim in 2014. Being modal means that you do not simply type text on screen, but the behavior and functionality of the editor changes entirely depending on the mode.
The most common and most used mode, the "normal mode" for Neovim is to essentially turn your keyboard in to hotkeys with which you can navigate and manipulate text. Several modes exist, but two other most common ones are "insert mode" where you type in text directly as if it was a traditional text editor, and "visual mode" where you select text.
Neovim seeks to enable further community participation in its development and to make drastic changes without turning it in to something that is "not Vim". Neovim also seeks to enable embedding the editor within GUI applications.
The Neovim logo by Jason Long is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
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Personally I think VSCode is a pretty weak IDE in a lot of ways. Half of the suggestions are more like "guesses" without any real context-aware processing happening. It's performance in automated refactoring or automatically detecting/fixing stuff like import errors is highly language dependent and poor quality for many (esp dynamic languages).
I've used many text editors and IDEs. Textmate 1 was the first I truly fell in love with, and over the years heavily used Textmate 2, Sublime, Atom, and VSCode. Spent a solid 6 months with SpaceMacs (look it up if you want to hurt your brain) but wasn't for me.
I started using IntelliJ at work for a single feature (the diff tool) and eventually switched over entirely to Jetbrains. WebStorm is by far the best web programming IDE I've used (react support is insane, w/ 0 time spent configuring it). I've used a few others (Ryder, CLIon) but IntelliJ is the work horse that gets it done for me.
I sometimes go try out VSCode again or other IDEs. They're fun and shiny for a day or two until the minor annoying issues pile up and the lack of depth in the features / code introspection becomes more obvious. Then back to IntelliJ.
I usually pirate most tools until they've demonstrated substantial value for me, and really hate subscriptions. But Jetbrains entire suite with the "returning customer" discount is like $150/year. And I got the discount on the entire suite because I had paid for Webstorm in the past, which seems really customer friendly. Really not trying to ride their dick or anything, I just feel like they really save me time and mental effort which is my most valuable resource these days.