Not gonna lie... I might rejoin the VSCode group soon.
PHPStorm is great, but... just feels so sluggish for what I get out of it.
The incoming VSC Laravel extension will likely be a great Laravel IDEA equivalent, and with some decent extension setup and better keybindings VSC can achieve most of the same functionality as the rest of PHPStorm.
Especially if you're used to using the CLI for things like git, tests, etc.
memory leaks of vs code extensions drives me crazy that's why I use jetbrains products
Hopefully you only need the new Laravel extension so you can delete all memory leaks.
I don't only work with laravel so I have other needs and instead of using vs code and using plugins with the memory leakage problem I prefer using jet brains products for the required stack. So I don't think this extension would solve my problems but I'm sure it's gonna be something amazing.