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Pulsar (former Atom) is still the best code editor in my opinion. It is easiest and fastest to use, has all the nice productivity boosting plugins and is overall great for all the same reasons the Atom was great. ๐Ÿš€

See also !pulsaredit@lemmy.ml

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[โ€“] varsock@programming.dev 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

code is just text, so code editors are text editors.

What sets IDEs apart are their features, like debugger integrations, refactoring assists, etc.

I love command line ยฑ Vim and used solely it for a large portion of my career but that was back when you had a few big enterprise languages (C/C++, Java).

With micro services being language agnostic, I find I use a larger variety of languages. And configuring and remembering an environment for rust, go, c, python etc. is just too much mental overhead. Hard to beat JetBrain's IDEs; now-a-days I bring my Vim navigation key bindings to my IDE instead of my IDE features to Vim. And I pay a company to work out the IDE features.

for the record, I am in the boat of, use whatever brings you the greatest joy/productivity.

[โ€“] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee -3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

text editors

Yes, I use MS Word then print as image to pdf. Outlook works too, but it's less secure, and Power Point is too fancy for my taste (I don't like animated transitions when my code wraps between columns). It's amazing how far we've come from punched cards, and how fast, I can barely keep up.

[โ€“] varsock@programming.dev 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

you sound like a Microsoft engineer ;)

[โ€“] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

I was trying to be a bit funny but I forgot that I'm not funny, (I'm) just a joke.