Same here. I like nano because it's a simple and intuitive editor that doesn't do much (though it does have some surprisingly powerful features once you know the shortcuts). I already have a full-blown IDE running on another screen and I don't want to spend any energy trying to stay on top of another one.

In other words, I would not use nano as my primary editor, but it's perfect as a secondary. If I need to edit more than a few lines, I'll just load up the file on my usual IDE.

Same - I use nano for quick edits on remote boxes or locally but for programming I use intellij.

I totally get why people use vim (and emacs) in fact I use vim for one specific thing I can not do in intellij (highlight closing parens in docblocks - intellij doesn't do it and if you are writing annotations it's a major pita that it doesnt).

I wouldn't call vs code an IDE, it's closer to a text editor

VSCode has intellisense, debugger, console, etc. It definitely fills a niche between a text editor and an IDE, IMO.

So does vim though. I use on vim the same language servers as VSCode.

With all the extensions available, you can get pretty close to a full IDE