quantaichi VS copilot.vim

You should check out taichi: https://github.com/taichi-dev/taichi They have a ton of great demos for doing physics but check out this example in particular for something related to your project: https://github.com/taichi-dev/quantaichi#game-of-life-gol. (Taichi also makes it super easy to write things for the GPU and the kernels are differentiable :).)

Advanced features of Taichi include spatially sparse computing, differentiable programming [examples], and quantized computation.

I use copilot in neovim[1]. It was remarkably simple to get installed. Highly recommend

[1]: https://github.com/github/copilot.vim

I use Plug 'tpope/vim-markdown' and markdown fenced codeblocks fairly extensively, and recently installed Copilot.vim.

Anyways. Yes, neovim has AI integration like copilot ( https://github.com/github/copilot.vim ) and chatgpt ( https://github.com/jackMort/ChatGPT.nvim )

I do think VSCode is a great tool and I recommend it frequently to people, but I still want to set the record straight here. Yes, vim is obviously limited in the sense that as a CLI app it doesn't draw it's own PDF or HTML windows, that's fair. But it can remote control your favorite PDF viewer or browser for roughly the same functionality. I'm currently writing my thesis using vimtex and it's quite smooth. And all the other stuff you mention is implemented quite competently by various plugins like vim-fugitive, coc.nvim, vimspector and copilot.vim.