whats the best FOSS IDE (and why?)

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Lots of replies mentioning Emacs but Emacs out of the box is gonna be essentially a text editor (insert obligatory: Emacs isn't a text editor; it's a LISP interpreter).
However, install Doom Emacs, and you have a full IDE experience for essentially any language you could ask for. I highly recommend it.
- Emacs is a life style
- is there a flatpak of this?
  
  I'm not too familiar with how Flatpak works but Emacs benefits from compiling it on your machine natively. Tell me what distro you're on and I can see if I can find out how you'd do that.
  
  linux mint - can i use doom emacs btw. also thx
  
  Following up from my previous comment, there is a Flatpak of Emacs available on Flathub. Here are the instructions for how to install, whilst enabling native compilation, which will offer a performance increase and allow you to use features such as vterm (the best terminal emulator for Emacs).
  
  A Flatpak of Doom Emacs? No. But you can just install the normal Emacs flatpak and then install Doom Emacs with 2 simple commands:
  git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs ~/.config/emacs
  ~/.config/emacs/bin/doom install
  Emacs will read these config files from the .config/emacs directory. Doom Emacs is not a different version of the program, it's essentially just a set of configuration files.
  
  it's not working for me? sorry to ask but could you try it? linux mint lts btw
  
  I don't have a Linux Mint installation right now, but when I used Mint a few months ago this worked for me. The two commands are from the official Doom Emacs install guide. Could you tell me exactly what doesn't work?
  
  when i use those commands it assume emacs is installed as a system package and installs to a different location not accessible to the flatpak
  
  Try PATH="/var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin/:$PATH" ~/.config/emacs/bin/doom install
  
  is that one command? also is there any disadvantgaes to emacs as a flatpak
  
  Yes, it's one single command. No, I haven't noticed any major downsides of Emacs as a Flatpak.
  
  what does the command do and do i have to use it whenever i run emacs or? i'll try it when i get home but if it doesnt work is there any chance you have discord or revolt or matrix, etc.
  
  I sent you my Matrix name via Lemmy DM

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