I use neovim over vim mainly because it has LSP funcionality built in.

Still i would like to switch to emacs because of it's licensing, and some spot interest in learning LISP.

I use Codium because I'm a laboraristocracker who can afford a PC that's not too bothered by its memory hogging but don't want to use VSCode because I don't want to be that cucked by Microsoft. I wanna make the jump to emacs or neovim though.

Vim most closely matches how I like to work and the featureset that I need so I use it for basically everything: scripting/programming, markdown, JSON Schema work, lightweight CSV work, config files, etc. I mostly use basic features that are built in – I think the only plugins I have for it are Goyo, for editing larger quantities of text, and maybe some Markdown-language highlighting/features which isn't built into the base program.

I am neutral about Neovim. I like that it exists, but there's nothing it would add for my use cases so I just install Vim.

I would love to learn a bit of Emacs, especially as I am a bit of a FSF / GPL diehard. I wish there was a GNU Vim clone (I feel Nano is a bit different) or that Vim was released under the GPL rather than its own. Although I am given to understand that it is somewhat copyleft (source). I think Emacs' nature as a power LISP machine is really interesting, but it just doesn't match with the way I work via a Window Manager+terminals/vim. Adding an Emacs layer on top of that just doesn't make sense for me. If there was a desktop environment or window manager that was basically "Emacs", I'd consider giving it a go.

I avoid Electron apps where possible because they're heavy on system resources but I have fond memories of Atom from when it came out (although Microsoft have abandoned it because they've sold everyone on VS-Code). For people just getting into doing things via a text editor I usually recommend its community fork, Pulsar.

I use Micro or Nano for simple config files and such, and Lapce for actual development. Lapce is nice because it's similar to VSCodium but it's written in Rust rather than Electron/JS, so it's really fast. It has LSP support, so code completion and formatting works, and that's basically all I care about in an editor. I tried to use vim for a while, but I found that trying to learn how to use it distracted me from writing code. I didn't want to go back to the slow bloatware known as VSCodium, so I went looking for other options.

vim for dev, nano for config editing

vim on servers and vscode with vim-mode for dev. I want to learn emacs but it’s hard to get started with.

On a side note, I have unreasonable hate for nano and I refuse to use it even for a single char change.

I use neovim because I know a little bit of lua so I can configure it a bit better. A while ago I used emacs with doom-emacs but found it difficult to customise it. Right now I use LazyVim to configure neovim and I understand it a bit better.

I prefer Emacs because it's the most flexible (by far) and I like Lisp, but I configure it for modal editing and I still use Neovim for some things

I've been using Neovim for the last few years for everything. I am considering switching to Helix when they get a good plugin system.

Side? SIDE? I'm on nobody's side - because nobody's on my side.

gedit, anyway. Yes, I write code for a living. Yes, it's fine. Honestly.

Emacs is the most based imo. I use it for most things. I'm also in the Vi/Vim camp though from time to time. Every "Edtior" that's written in some version of JabbaScript is my enemy.

I've been using neovim recently, though before that I tended to use nano.