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.
I may give another shot at VSCode as well, especially to try the Laravel extension. I am, however, closely monitoring the progress of Zed which look promising.
zed.dev
After installing zed months ago I reopened it again and tryied to work using it. It hapilly surprised me how much it can do, I think it improved a lot. Is still worse than vscoded and phpstorm, but it's not useless anymore. for quick code reading or small features can be a good code editor I think
I'm also using it to quickly open text files, as an alternative to `nano`, if I may say so. But it is not yet at the level required for the type of work I need to do at the moment. I hope it will be improved quickly; I really liked Atom, which is somewhat the predecessor of Zed.
Ah, I love Atom too! I was at university at the time and even created a little “code highlighter” plugin for the custom assembly language we had. Looking back, it may have been due to my ignorance, but I still remember how good it felt to make that little plugin! 😅
Oh yeah, Zed has been really neat. I've been using it as my Sublime/Atom/VSC alternative when I want a light editor for referencing code while I write in PHPStorm.
Once extension support increases for it, it'll definitely be a good alternative.