When I started my professional work, Visual Studio was the recommended editor where I was, it was terrible, the Laptops we had were incredibly shit. My phone scored better on benchmarks than it, as such Visual Studio was not a good experience, I convinced my boss to let us try Rider, it was incredible, I no longer had to sit for 10s of minutes for a project to load, it was relatively snappy. My next job I started using Goland and was quite happy with it, at this point we had more high-power macs, but still great editor. I then moved on to Neovim, and then Helix in search of better ergonomics. I now have gone full circle and pretty much develop on a laptop of the same caliper as when i started working, however, because of a more lightweight editor helix, it doesn't feel like a slog, I wished I'd gotten it recommended back then, or been curious enough to give it a try, I'd saved myself many coffee breaks, and pain.

So if anyone is out there sitting in a similar position, give it a shot, you can get a better editor experience, whether you build it yourself with emacs, neovim, or use a more curated approach like helix, or zed for that matter. I mix and match Helix now with Claude Code, and it works really well. I don't want a single AI feature in my editor, only navigation, and auto complete. I'll have my AI on the side thank you ;)