Intellij is an absolute beast of an IDE (in both senses, it's amazing and huge).

I haven't loved working with a tool so much since Delphi 6, it has plugins for everything I want to do, they work really well, I can have a project open and use multiple languages seamlessly, it's extremely customisable.

It's right up there with Linux in my "tools I wouldn't want to live without" category.

That said as a lightweight alternative when I don't need an IDE I'm very much liking vscode, it's a strange world when my favourite linux editor is made by microsoft.

The only bad part about Jetbrains is that no matter how much i've tried i can't use a text editor without feeling crippled.

A big factor is probably that I started programming using Jetbrains tools (except some c++ in codeblocks before that). It's so awesome everything else just sucks.

The problem is when i want to try some language that is not well supported by IntelliJ. No matter how cool the language is i get frustrated by editors like sublime/atom/emacs.

I know what you mean, I started programming back in the 80's as a kid so I spent about a decade without anything that looks like a modern IDE and since then I've used nothing but IDE's, I can live without an IDE but I seldom want to, it just suits my programming style.

Most importantly I always miss "Go to definition" that usually doesn't work (well?) in editors. Also in javascript. The exploratory power that comes with that is also incredible. I don't need to read your damn docs (unless the module is heavyweight and needs studying), I just want to be sure I called your mehod with the arguments in the correct order ffs!!

"Go to definition" works great in vscode. I tried it with golang and it also has the feature to show definitions inline :)