

My recommendation for getting more support in VSCode But if you just need to open a single file, make a few changes, and save, LightEdit is the quickest way to do it, and you don’t have to use a third-party editor either. The mode has certain limitations: it offers simpler code completion (or sometimes none at all), no code inspections, only basic code highlighting that doesn’t require sophisticated code analysis, and so on. Here’s a quote about IntelliJ lightweight, but more importantly I think this kind of editing is what those using text editors are going for: more limitations and less tooling in exchange for more speed and less complexity: Turning VSCode into a full-blown IDE seems a bit redundant since we have IntelliJ and the great thing about a less-tooled editor like VSCode is how easy quick un-tooled changes are. Kotlin ideals line up well with a full IDE (it’s uncommon to want the barebones of an editor like VSCode). The reason I want to bring this up is that it seems users requesting higher priority to support text editors like VSCode/Sublime/Atom/Notepad++ instead of fully tooled IDEs are really looking for a lightweight alternative. I know this isn’t what your asking, but IntelliJ is getting a lightweight mode.
