intellij-platform-plugin-template VS ideavim

The easiest way to create a new plugin is using the template. It is being actively developing and had already included most needed features.

Now we have a great template , which contains a useful todo list

[this neovim plugin](https://github.com/abecodes/tabout.nvim) helps me get out of double quotes and parenthesis while being in insert mode (I use [ideavim](https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim/)). The present implementation of this behaviour in the IDE as [smart keys](https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/settings-smart-keys.html) isn't cutting it for me.

IntelliJ with Vim bindings is really good! It is actively supported so patches come often to fix some discrepancies with the original software. It even supports a handful of plugins out of the box.

The biggest advantage of vim is the movements (key bindings), and there are plugins for many editors for that, e.g. https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim

There are many apps, web sites, IDE plugins, and extensions that have vim keybindings. You can use vim keybindings all the time, everywhere.

There is a nerdtree plugin for ideavim https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim/wiki/NERDTree-support

ideavim has vimscript, but I am not sure how "full" it is, never tried.

IntelliJ IDEA makes it definitively easy to start without setting things up. IdeaVim makes it better for a Vim user. But also frustrating, as certain Vim-features don't work.

Then for an editor I'd suggest intellij idea, it has GUI wizards for a lot of things. vim probably has a place in there to make things faster or more ergonomic when editing text. Plus you'd ideally also have a speach to text engine that can run in your ide, making it so you have to type less.

I'm the opposite to you. I started using vim now I use IntelliJ (I'm a java developer). The secret is IdeaVim