If you mostly just want the memorized shortcuts to work, they tend to work OK in VSCode, Atom, IntelliJ and even Emacs - Spacemacs is even a better ViM for some.
As someone who did a fair amount of hacking in vimL, evil-mode is a drastically improved vim. It gets basically everything right, out of the box, and extending it isnt nearly as painful as using vimL or interacting with vim's Python API.
> It gets basically everything right, out of the box
Custom bindings don't work on the default document. That's a pretty big failure right out of the box.
And I still prefer vimL to lisp, it's the php of editor extension languages. It's not great for big plugins but ok great to slap things together quickly.
