I’m a “serious professional” who has been developing for over 20 years and I’ve generally prefer a text editor the IDEs that I’ve had to use at work. I find that most IDEs are slow resource hogs that don’t give me features that I actually care about over a fast text editor.

The singular exception was Cider when I was at Google. It was fantastic at wrangling their massive monorepo, and integration with their code review and ticket system was nice. Somehow it was snappy and reliable even though it ran in Chrome.

Nowadays I’ve switched to Helix and use LSPs for the languages I use most. For what it’s worth, those are C, C++, Rust and Python. Mostly Rust and Python now.

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 hours ago

I started using Helix a few weeks ago and I'm in love. I don't want to spend multiple weekends figuring out the ideal plugin configuration of neovim. Helix seems to do everything I want it to do and nothing I don't, right out of the box.

[–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That’s the first time I’ve heard a positive review of Cider. Compared to IntelliJ it was really lacking.

[–] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’ve never used IntelliJ, or Java for that matter. I’m primarily an embedded robotics developer, so most of the time I’m writing C or a subset of C++ for uC/DSP target, or using SciPy for data analysis and algorithm development. I recognize that probably puts me way outside of the norm for most people and software engineers in terms of process preferences.

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago

Still super cool to hear about your workflow. Makes me wish I had an excuse to spend time experimenting with that stuff.