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What IDEβ€―do you use and why ? (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Crampi@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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[–] Zahtu@feddit.org 1 points 23 hours ago

VSCodium, the opensource, free-of-MSspyware Clone of VSCode.

Sure enough, Take Care about what Extensions you Install and why u need them.

[–] mholiv@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Helix + the appropriate set of LSPs.

It’s like neo vim without the need the manage plugins. That and it uses select -> action instead of vim style action -> select, which makes more sense to me.

[–] jaxxed@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

I keep using emacs, mainly because it has an innovative ecosystem that provides interesting ways to work - meow, consult, corfu, eglot, treesitter - so cool how these pieces for together.

[–] jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago

JetBrains. They're paid, but they're just that good.

[–] branno@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago

I use JetBrains IDEs. IntelliJ, Pycharm, Goland, and Webstorm.

[–] wer2@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago

Emacs with evil-mode or when I am banging around the console, neovim.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I switch between VSCode and Notepad++ depending on what I am doing.

Not sure why you would ditch a program for correctly responding to a security threat.

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Ditto. I also don't use off brand plugins. Just the ones I need from major publishers.

[–] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

This. At work i use visual studio ( .net wpf/blazor/maui ) with vscode on the side. At home i use vscodium for my .net/c/c++ work and sometimes notepad++ for other c stuff. Depends if i open 1 file quickly or working on a project

[–] Crampi@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Because I'm looking for FOSS right now

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

https://codeium.com/vscode_tutorial

Is the closest. It is literally VSCode without the MS telemetry.

[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Same. I've had a few big config purges and migrations every few years, but I'm always neovim.

I started using Neovide as a frontend so people could follow what I'm doing (it adds animated cursor movement, etc.) I actually found that I really like it and rarely use a terminal to run neovim now.

[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

Helix because it's simple and works without tweaking it.

[–] XPost3000@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

VSCode cuz I couldn't find a good open source alternative written in c++ or rust that isn't just a terminal text editor that needs a trillion plugins/configs to run (I would have tried zed if they ever made a version for windows, seems like the most promising ide to vsc)

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

VSCodium is the best we can get for now it seems.

[–] Turturtley@aussie.zone 4 points 2 days ago

Helix. I hate tweaking my ide. I just want to launch it and get to work. Setting up my LSP/formatter/theme is the most i’m willing to put up with and that’s all Helix asks for to be an IDE.

[–] Racle@sopuli.xyz 12 points 3 days ago

Neovim (heavily customized configuration) + tmux for me. Switched from Jetbrains IDE and VSCode to this ~5 years ago. I use neovim with every language.

Fast to use, one app for all and I have customized that to my liking and I already spent half of my time in terminal while working anyway. + knowing how to use vim helps a lot when configuring servers remotely.

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I write code every day at my job. I use vim.

It does everything I need it to do, and it works exactly the same way on every system I touch, and functions the same way since I started using it decades ago (aside from being able to use arrow keys now instead of hjkl)

If I HAVE to do any coding on Windows, I use notepad++.

[–] toddestan@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

Why not use gvim on Windows? That's my "IDE" on Windows. Though with modern versions of Windows, trying to run vim in the Command Prompt isn't a complete disaster like it was in the past.

"IDE" in quotes because I consider vim a text editor, and I don't try to make it an IDE with a bunch of plugins.

[–] Thebigguy@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Kate just because I have to learn coding and it was installed and idgaf

[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

I use emacs for almost everything. It took time to get used to. And some time to configure things. But now I'm just riding off my years old config files and packages I wrote as my use case haven't changed.

I use python, rust, C, R, jupyter notebook, org mode, latex, markdown, PDFs, xml, org-roam, etc.

[–] schmalls@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Visual Studio Professional mostly because it is included for my job and we develop on mostly Microsoft stack. VS Code for simple text editing outside of a project.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

I use vscodium which is vscode with all the telemetry ripped out. Anybody can make malicious extensions for any IDE, so I don't see what's speccial in that regard. It's just a reminder that you want to be careful about extensions you install.

[–] fubarx@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

I saw the security article, but that sounds like it needs to be tackled by MSFT, the way Google has to handle Chrome extensions.

Have been a paid Jetbrains user for years, especially PyCharm. But recently, I had to do some front-end web development with ionic/Capacitor and Vue, and ionic only had a VsCode plugin. A few weeks later, came across Cursor which is a fork of VsCode with LLM support, and all the same plugins worked.

Still keeping my PyCharm subscription, but am wobbly on whether I'll re-up next year.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago

For an actual IDE, Jetbrains. But I rarely need an actual IDE and will just generally use Vim for everything.

[–] jimmy90@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago
[–] compostgoblin@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 days ago

VSCode at work, VSCodium at home

[–] IttihadChe@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'm just starting to learn to code via VSCode...

Do you guys actually think it's worth switching? I guess it's better to switch after you just started than when you're in deep.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Just move to VSCodium, which is VSCode with the telemetry removed! That's what I'm on and it's great.

[–] Iapar@feddit.org 7 points 2 days ago

Nah, you're good.

[–] crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Neovim ( not heavilly customized, mostly just lsp+trisitter and mini.nvim for a lot of other stuff ) and tmux ( which is also barelly customized + sesh for sessiond management. Also have it start automatically whem opening my terminal ).

Started using neovim right away when switching to linux back in 2018, started using tmux only last year and it's a godsend for even just regular terminal work not just with neovim.

I also reccomend for anybody who tries to learn neovim to learn touch typing and get to atleast 60wpm, it's a big difference.

[–] Daeraxa@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Pulsar because I am (or at least was and will be, I've been a bit absent recently) part of the team developing it. Its a fork of Atom to continue development after GitHub pulled the plug, entirely community developed and focused.

[–] _ed@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

As an ex atom user I’m using Pulsar right now.

[–] greywolf0x1@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

I used and loved Pulsar for a while, it was neat and I enjoyed using it, kudos for your work...

[–] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'm a webdev and I mainly work with Vanilla JS, React and PHP - I use phpStorm now. Everything mostly works out of the box, it auto-detects my PHP environment, composer install (which is basically just npm for PHP), nice-to-have features like Stylelint and ESLint are also integrated and enable themselves by default if specific config files are found inside a project folder...it's just nice. Open a project, see it do all of its magic, start to code.

Previously I've worked with VSCode and I needed a plugin for every single feature and every plugin had its own settings that you needed to be aware of. It was horrible. I was configuring my own IDE more than I was actually writing code. I get that it's probably more flexible than phpStorm, but I just don't have time do dig into plugin settings all of the time - and god forbid I work with a project from another developer and he uses a different extension than me for Stylelint or formatting .md files...

[–] blackboxwarrior@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

VSCode! I’m yet to find another editor that runs as smoothly on remote machines. Zed has been getting much better at this, but it’s still too buggy to consider a switch.

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

VSCode with VsVim or whatever plugin. It has the combination I like. Multi-cursor fills in most of the gaps I don't like.

I've tried Neovim variants a few times. I usually get stuck at something and don't have the time to figure it out. I need to take that time to learn everything and get it right but I get tired.

[–] SuluBeddu@feddit.it 4 points 3 days ago

I don't really have a main IDE. I work with python, so on my work PC they got me a PyCharm license.

For everything else, I casually switch between Pulsar (Atom fork), Notepad++, Spyder, and I did some stuff in VSCode. If the project is small and is an aws lambda, I use their web editor

Anything goes really

[–] Pencilnoob@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

At work Rider, at home Emacs. Also trying out Zed at home.

[–] ByteMe@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Android studio, clion and sometimes vs code but I'm not really happy with it.

[–] kayazere@feddit.nl 2 points 3 days ago

For macOS and iOS development I use Xcode (don’t really have another choice), but otherwise I am using Kate. Kate has support for macOS and Windows in addition to Linux.

I’m not touching VSCode, I don’t want to use an electron app as a code editor, nor want to use something with Microsoft spyware and propriety plugins.

[–] obbeel@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 3 days ago

I use Geany. It's lightweight and easy to use, but there are some features missing.

[–] Arehandoro@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

IntelliJ at work, neovim at home.

Godot because i dont know any benefits of using another app exclusively for code

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

mostly gedit nowadays, but i'm more on the infrastructure side now, grain of salt.

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 days ago

I don't! Mine isn't integrated. I edit the code in one software and compile and run it in another.

[–] AntY@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Doom emacs. There is no end to customizability with emacs. Doom provides a great starting point for most things.

[–] sprack@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Still enjoying using Sublime. If I had to leave I’d probably go back to vi.

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