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What os? What ide? What plug-ins?

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[–] ghodawalaaman@programming.dev 29 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)
[–] JakenVeina@midwest.social 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, the alternatives are really lacking. JetBrains Rider REALLY feels underbaked. No deal-breaking issues, but lots of little low-impact ones, and lots of design decisions that go against common conventions, for no apparent reason. The "Visual Studio Mode" doesn't really help.

On top of that, I've had several issues with RUNNING Rider, on account of being on Bazzite, an immutable distro. It was fine on Mint, but Mint had its own troubles with my NVidia card.

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Visual Studio also feels really urderbaked IMO. I had my issues with navigation, UI and Vim mode. Debugger experience with Edit and Continue was pretty amazing though.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 5 points 3 weeks ago

That's what I mostly use too

[–] Miaou@jlai.lu 4 points 3 weeks ago

I share this pain :(

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[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 16 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
  • Arch Linux (btw.)
  • hyprland
  • helix
  • kitty
  • LibreWolf (for research)
[–] vrek@programming.dev 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hmmm..ill have to do some research as I don't know most of those

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 weeks ago

Arch is a linux distribution

Hyperland tiles the windows (so they fill up the screen instead of floating)

Helix is a text editor

Kitty is a terminal / console

LibreWolf is a Firefox version

Helix is the only part that really answers your question. https://helix-editor.com/

That's what I use too.

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[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Linux, Plasma, VSCodium with the clang. cmake, and Qt extensions

[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] vrek@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Not to start the infamous war but why Emacs and not vim/neovim?

[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I find vim way of editing text uncomfortable and how it lacks flexibility in general when compared to emacs (One can make vim from emacs not viceversa). Also I like that emacs is a gui application.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 4 points 3 weeks ago

Ah makes sense, I've always preferred vim but never got good with the motions

[–] littleomid@feddit.org 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Oh you’re opening a big can of worms here

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[–] hallettj@leminal.space 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)
  • NixOS + Home Manager
  • Niri
  • Kitty
  • Neovim, via Neovide

For work it's Fedora + Home Manager because the remote admin software doesn't support NixOS. Thankfully I've been able to define my dev environment almost fully in a Home Manager config that I can use at work and at home.

I use lots of Neovim plugins. Beyond the basic LSP and completion plugins, some of my indispensables are:

  • Leap for in-buffer navigation & remote text copying
  • Oil for file management
  • Fugitive + Git Signs + gv.vim + diffview.nvim for git integration
  • nvim-surround to add/change/remove delimiters
  • vim-auto-save
  • kitty-scrollback
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[–] banshee@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago
  • NixOS
  • Hyprland (pending migration to Niri)
  • Emacs (eglot)

I occasionally use Jetbrains products as well (e.g. maintaining Kotlin projects).

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 weeks ago

Kate, LSP, Linux.

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Flexible, but Linux/macos predominantly. Jetbrains (CLion/RustRover). No specific plugins, JB IDEs are pretty good out of the box.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago

From jb I only have used pycharm but it was pretty good.

[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

NixOS, fish, tmux, Helix, jj

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Arch + i3wm/sway + Tmux + Neovim

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago

Ditto, pretty much.

[–] Hexarei@beehaw.org 5 points 3 weeks ago

I run Manjaro, and use neovim for my development. I've got a slew of plugins for everything from language servers to database to things like integration with tmux and specialty motions.

I've tried many development environments, but so far I keep coming back to nvim.

I've been a fan for about 5 years at this point, and I use it for PHP+js+html at my day job and Rust for personal projects, but also any other language that comes up. Delightful to have one editor that can do basically everything and do it with consistent shortcuts, that I can even run on my phone with a folding keyboard.

[–] rwdf@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Arch with Niri, LazyVim in Ghostty.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 3 weeks ago

A messy bedroom.

[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Varies a bit with job, but by far the most in the last 15 years:

Linux (Debian), Emacs, tiling window manager (i3/sway/stumpwm), also gollum wiki + org-mode for writing docs. For small quick edits, I use vim.

I use Arch in a VM, or (preferred) Guix package manager for tools that require newer versions of software.

On the job, I write mostly C++/Python/Go/Rust, at home more Rust, Python, and the Lisps.

Work (frequently some kind of embedded) uses also e.g. Ubuntu, OpenSuSE Leap, Gnome, eclipse, and so on.

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[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 4 points 3 weeks ago

Linux Mint. No IDE -- I just use xed (a fork of gedit) + gnome-terminal, both of which ship with the distro. Only plugin I use regularly for xed is "Code Comment" which lets you comment/uncomment blocks of code quickly.

[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Fedora Kinoite with VSCodium (Flatpak), both for work and my own stuff.

Also a few toolboxes with different compiler versions for some older projects.

I mostly do .NET and PHP stuff.

[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Which VSCodium extensions are you using for .NET?

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[–] TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

Doom Emacs on Arch with Plasma.

[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago
[–] AstroLightz@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Arch Linux (BTW) is my main/dev OS, but also Windows 10 VM for certain projects.

For simple scripting in any language: VSCodium

PyCharm, Android Studio for projects in specific languages.

For other full projects: VSCodium

As for testing/deploying projects, I have a QEMU dev VM that's connected to my IDEs using shared folders running basic Arch with fresh install of KDE Plasma.

Plugins mainly consist of QoL features, linting for certain languages in VSCodium, themes, etc.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 3 points 3 weeks ago

Linux

Distrobox container

Code OSS

  • clangd (always have to change compile commands path because $workspacefolder variable varies per machine even on the same project, it will just choose a subfolder sometimes)

  • nrfconnect suite (it has some extra checks for .dts files and a nice GUI)

  • embedded flash plugins/programs like jlink, Stmcubeprogrammer, etc..

Serial Studio

Logic 2 / Sigrok pulseview

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Private: Arch, sway, nvim with too many to remembet plugins in foot
Work: Windows to Google Cloud Workstation, JetBrains

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[–] aloofPenguin@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

OS: Debian (Trixie)

DE: KDE Plasma

I use vim for light edits. Currently using VSCodium, but am slowly trying out Kate. I use codeberg as Version Control, and Konsole as the terminal.

I also have notepadqq (a native alternative to notepad++), but prefer vim and am also trying to switch to Kate.

[–] entwine@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago

Linux/Sublime Text/Konsole

[–] OnfireNFS@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Work: RustRover on MacOS Personal: RustRover on Bazzite

Mainly language support plugins: Python, .env, mermaid

[–] fum@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Debian at home, Rocky Linux at work

VSCodium or Godot depending on what I'm working on.

Whatever language support via LSP is available for VSCodium, Prettier, I'll have to check the rest. Nothing that drastically changes the experience. Basically whatever does auto formatting, code completion(without using "AI"), and error highlighting.

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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

At work, windows with jet brains products. Then docker with Ubuntu server.

At home its popos with vim. Sometimes docker, sometimes not.

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 3 points 3 weeks ago

Linux + IntelliJ

I also use VsCode because I like its text editing better.

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

neovim, neovim, neovim

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 3 points 3 weeks ago

For work, a Mac and vscode. I don't love vscode but it's what everyone uses.

Well, some of them develop on windows with like notepad++ and it's kind of a nightmare. There's no ci/cd, linting, or testing, so whenever I check out someone else's branch it's full of red squiggles.

My personal is pop!_os Linux where I'm also using vscode because I'm too cheap to pay for pycharm.

[–] frankenswine@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Emacs clients in alacritty terminals on GNU Guix. I am used to vi-keybindings so I use evil-mode.

[–] nik9000@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago

Arch, i3, IntelliJ, VSCode when I'm not in Java.

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