For me, I've been looking into Lapce and lite-xl a lot recently. I really like the idea of extremely lightweight text editors that try to compete with Codium (libre binary of VScode).

What text/code editors do y'all use? I want to try them out.

  • Zvyozdochka [she/her, comrade/them]
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    11 months ago

    Helix, it's a nice alternative to Neovim because I don't want to spend hours configuring plugins. It has everything I need built in and works out of the box. It's also written in Rust 🦀

    • jaemeM
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      11 months ago

      I've used Helix a lot in the past before being indoctrinated into GNU Emacs. I really liked it's newer take on modal editing and as you said all the configuration is done for you.

      Also the fact that it compiles with a ton of cool themes haha.

      • Zvyozdochka [she/her, comrade/them]
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        11 months ago

        fidel-salute to anyone willing to learn Emacs, as the video says: "Emacs is not that hard, you can learn Emacs in one day, every day"

  • frankfurt_schoolgirl [she/her]
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    11 months ago

    I use vscode for everything, but i want to try something more interesting. Some of the new Rust ides look really cool

    • jaemeM
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      11 months ago

      I see we have an evil user amogus. Such villany

    • gaycomputeruser [she/her]
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      11 months ago

      I'm glad I'm not the only one who misses atom. It was rough to move from it, it's so good.

    • jaemeM
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      11 months ago

      What are your thoughts on Pulsar? Do you dabble in Vimscript?

  • daisy
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    11 months ago

    Sometimes Micro. Lightweight, runs on tons of platforms, open source, scriptable in plain Lua, highly customizable, can handle multiple open files.

    But honestly mostly vscode. I should probably look into a switch to vscodium sometime.

  • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]
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    11 months ago

    Acme! It's a weird but really intuitive text editor/window manager once you get used to it.

    https://research.swtch.com/acme

    Or nano for simple text editing in a terminal.

  • oscardejarjayes [comrade/them]
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    8 months ago

    Neovim. I've tried everything from vscodium to emacs to writing my own, but I really like how lightweight it is, combined with the ease of configuration with Lua.

  • YearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]
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    11 months ago

    vim, no fancy configs or anything because I want it to always work the same on remote servers that I work on vs my local

    eclipse for java (god I hate my job)

    Honestly I used to use notepad++ on windows for general use and IDEs/terminals as appropriate, but its such dogshit on linux (they say just use the windows version with wine! and the Qt clone of it has some key features for me broken, like bad autosave) that I almost entirely use vim. I guess sometimes gedit to open things graphically.

    • jaemeM
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      11 months ago

      Do companies still use Eclipse? I thought they would all switch to JetBrains licenses.

      What are your thoughts on Neovim?

      • YearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]
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        11 months ago

        they dont tell me what to use and I dont do enough development to want an intelliJ license particularly, which is what my coworkers use

        never used neovim but it looks neat. might have to try it. but ultimately my like of vim is mostly that its usually preintalled and the same everywhere. My text editing is pretty distributed across different systems that dont have neovim no any of my custom configs for much of anything