[numitus]

I am just wondered, how many lines of codes people writes every day, that code-editor speed is so important?

[mattigames]

I dont think is much about how much you write, is more like your brain consciously and subconsciously keep track of how enjoyable/frustrating is to any use any given tool (or perform any given action), for developers that includes the code editor, and some developers percieve speed as one of the most important features to make it enjoyable

[Aeolun]

I think it’s more that slowness makes things less enjoyable. Snappy should be the baseline. I love IntelliJ, but the fact that it often just decides to randomly re-index, slowing the whole system to a crawl, makes the experience of using it extremely frustrating.