The new Webstorm version coming up is several times faster, its amazing. On a Mac its so fast its literally like using Sublime.

This is due among other things due to their upgrade to Java 8.

This is the link to the early access program https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/WI/WebStorm+EAP

Are the VIm mode issues he mentioned improved? I keep moving back to VIm because while all of these tools make excellent IDEs none of them are great editors.

The other thing that drive me a bit nuts is the multiple versions. Webstorm vs Rubymine. I build on Rails, but do most of my UI work with Angular+JS+Webpack. So which should I use Rubymine or Webstorm?

It's all too confusing.

As far as VIM goes I'm on the same boat. If Webstorms VIM plugin had the ability to move from panes and specially into the file tree explorer (use the hjkl), that would probably make me want to use it.

Not sure on Webstorm, but IntelliJ (which has the webstorm plugin) lets you flip between panes using standard Vim keybindings.

I have "ctrl-(hjkl)" mapped using https://github.com/christoomey/vim-tmux-navigator so I have an extremely easy time navigating between splits in terminal vim. I tried like hell to get "ctrl-(hjkl)" to work in IntelliJ. I eventually gave up and decided to just start clicking the panes like a caveman. It never even crossed my mind to try the original bindings.

Thank you.