Maybe. I've not experienced these same issues of "hard to maintain" Vim configs. However, just to learn, I downloaded VS code from the website right now. I extracted the archive and ran the executable.
Immediately, VS code took ~4 seconds to start. From there, I opened a text file and just started typing, and immediately my CPU usage spiked. From further examination, any kind of redrawing by VS code seems to cause the entire application to be redrawn on the CPU, meaning typing text in VS code causes ~30% CPU usage across most of my cores[0].
Immediately, VS code took ~4 seconds to start. From there, I opened a text file and just started typing, and immediately my CPU usage spiked. From further examination, any kind of redrawing by VS code seems to cause the entire application to be redrawn on the CPU, meaning typing text in VS code causes ~30% CPU usage across most of my cores[0].
I'll pass.
[0] - http://i.xwl.me/2017-04-20-093624_4480x2096_scrot.png