Primarily Sublime Code, Notepad++, PhpStorm and NetBeans.

That's an unusual experience. Based on a handful of benchmarks[0] done by the author of JOE, VS Code is sometimes an order of magnitude slower than Notepad++ and Sublime at some tasks.

I use VS Code pretty much exclusively these days myself, so I'm not picking on it by any means.

[0]: https://github.com/jhallen/joes-sandbox/tree/master/editor-p...

Well, I haven't benchmarked it so it's just how I feel. Maybe there's something in the UX that makes it feel more performant.

I have the same experience on my pretty slow laptop. Granted, my projects aren't big, but I would take vs code over sublime any day. Interestingly, atom feels much slower compared to both.

That's because, unequivocally, atom is slower.

https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/

Surprising part isn't that atom is slow, it's that vs code isn't and they both use electron.

PhPStorm and NetBeans are not 'native'.

Care to elaborate?

There's nothing to elaborate. They're both Java/Swing apps.

Thanks. That's what I meant. I thought that counted as native.

Nope, it doesn't. Although it's probably a good indication that the hairsplitting over 'native' and not is not as important as this thread might make one think.