What IDE (Code Editors) do you use for programming?

Whichever Jetbrains IDE is appropriate. I fell in love with Rider and wound up paying for their all-inclusive license. I've since made heavy use of Webstorm, CLion, and Datagrip professionally and personally.

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Visual Studio Code. It has great defaults out of the box, is highly customizable and extensible, has near universal support for every programming language, and runs reasonably fast on my machines.

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Yeah VSCode is the GOAT. I reached a point where I basically only ever use any other IDE if I'm explicitly told to, or if I don't have a desktop environment to work with. Or if I have to work with Java, because sadly I found the Java support on VSCode to be rather lacking.

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NeoVim. Endlessly customizable, quick to start, and can offer whatever niche feature you’d like. Did I say it was endlessly customizable?

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Same here. I've used vim/neovim for decades now.

I hated configuring it then (in vimscript). I hate configuring it now (in lua).

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What GUI or terminal emulator do you use to run Neovim?

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- Not OP, but I’ve been using Kitty for ages and love it. A GPU term is a must IMO.
  
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When I first started programming a few years ago, I used Python's default IDLE. After a few months of that I switched to Atom (RIP), and shortly after moved to VS Code. I've stuck with VS Code since.

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I strongly recommemd VSCodeium, the FOSS-ified version

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- Will give this a look. See how hard it is to install and use when using a screen reader. Really like that there's no telemetry
  
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I missed Atom a lot when it was discontinued. Recently found Pulsar which is a community continuation of Atom, and it seems to be quite active.

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- Yay, Im happy there is at least one pulsar mention! We are thinking of setting up a Lemmy community but want to make sure there is enough interest.
  
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IntelliJ IDEA

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VS Code, but may switch to VSCodium or Neovim eventually.

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Emacs

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GNU Emacs

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JetBrains for everything

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Neovim or Jetbrains depending on the project and my mood.

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JetBrains IDE all the way. Mostly Intellij Idea, WebStorm, CLion (for Rust) and PhpStorm. Once in a while Visual Studio Code for a quick text file edit.

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Helix 🌚

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Love helix

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I just use a stack of cards and a knitting needle.

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NeoVim.

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I have a JetBrains All Product Pack license, so they are always my first choice. I tried VSCode and vim, but they require so much work to get to a useable state whereas a true IDE can be used right away. I want to code and not turn fiddling with my editor into a hobby. I do use VSCode and vim, but only for editing text. And I use vim key bindings everywhere.

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+1 for jetbrains, vscode feels basic compared to it

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Can confirm. Your do get stuff done with that suite.

I use mainly webstorm, rider and intellij

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IntelliJ. With Vim-keybinding.

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Also vscode. With vim-keybindings.

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- I want to like vscode, and the vim bindings make me feel at home. I just don't like it though, I find it so slow for a text editor, and the intellisense seems to be very hit and miss as to whether it's going to work.
  
  Every few months I open up vscode and give it a try, then go back to vim.
  
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- You check out the neovim plugin too if you haven’t already.
  
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Neovim. Nothing interesting, but it gets the job done way better than anything else I tried. I had my own config until a week ago, when I switched to nvchad because of my unwillingness to port my config to lazy.nvim plugin manager.

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It's also perfect if you spend time on any remote machines. The default configuration isn't awesome, but it does "get the job done".

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VSCodium.

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Emacs with doomemacs config. Really fast and very neat for what I do.

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Spacemacs here. Been using it so long (and without major problems) that I'm afraid to start experimenting with other distros, or writing my own config.

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- I was using spacemacs before trying doom, from what I can tell, it's an upgrade. Doom config loads faster than spacemacs on my computers. Loving both project tho.
  
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Anything that is not Android Studio.

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QT is worse all that talk about sockets and connectors get me actin unwise

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- Gordon doesn't need to hear all this, he's a highly trained professional.
  
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Vim for light work, emacs when I need more ide features. I program mostly in fortran, c , c++, and bash on remote servers.

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Visual Studio and VS Code.

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Vi. Not even Vim. Just whatever vi is preinstalled on Arch Linux.

IDE's and I... don't get along.

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Recently started using neovim with LazyVim and I'm enjoying it.

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I use Emacs. Doom Emacs to be exact :)

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Intellij for backend, VS Code for front end

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Visual Studio professional. It’s so slow though. Would love to use anything else, but am locked down due to work.

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Intellij.

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Emacs built with Nix. I host my configuration on GitHub.

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Pycharm

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Notepad++ , nano if that counts lol

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Geany

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Man of culture right here

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I mostly code in Python and for that I use PyCharm. For everything else I use VS Code.

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Visual Studio for work (c#), Pycharm when I need to do Python.

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VSCode for Python and RStudio for R.

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You're me! Though I'm closely following the progress of the R and Jupyter extensions for vscode. They're not an RStudio replacement yet, but I think soon R will be comparable to python in vscode, and I'd love to consolidate.

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VSCode usually, Xcode when working with Apple platforms specifically

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what, no love for CodeLite when working on smaller projects?

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For Python, VS Code and Jupyter Lab. I used Sublime Text 3 previously but have found VS Code to be easier to set up and better supported over time. I do miss how fast and lightweight Sublime is this compared to VS Code though so I still use ST4 as a general text editor.

For Excel VBA (ugh), pretty much have to use the built in one as there doesn’t seem to be any alternative.

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It keeps changing with the job. I've used Eclipse a whole bunch of times for Java projects, IntelliJ a couple of times. Pycharm for Python. Vim for Bash and a bunch of other stuff. QT Creator for some C++ with the QT framework. Now it's mostly VSCode.

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Visual Studio

Notepad++ for non ide stuff like data files and scripts.

Occasionally Visual Studio Code. For mass text replace and some other tooling / envs.

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Personally I use notepad++ just for xml

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VSCode is the best code editor around, the plugin ecosystem is phenomenal, copilot specifically has been the biggest boost to my output in 15 years of development.

Unfortunately it doesn't do everything, I got stuck with some really old legacy software and have to hop into the vb6 ide, code::blocks, and very rarely visual studio.

Multi-cursor wizardry is absolutely life changing

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These days I write Lisp code using the Medley Interlisp development environment. It's a vintage but amazingly capable environment that's being revived and modernized.

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Mostly VSCodium and Sublime-texr

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Atom

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I'm a code block and Eclipse kind of guy who forced to use Visual studio because of Unreal Engine

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Mostly neovim, sometimes VS code

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Used to be PyCharm but started switching to editors. This was accelerated when I started with Rust. Now I use Kate and Nano and sometimes Gedit

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Not seeing textmate in the replies. It’s a nice lightweight one.

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I started with Notepad++ and some CSS-specific editor (I can’t figure out the name anymore!), then switched to Brackets (RIP), Atom (RIP) and eventually landed at VS Code. I want to use VSCodium, but some of my favorite extensions are missing and their maintainers refuse to add them to the open VSCodium extension registry…

I would also like to try more “native” editors like Nova, but so far I always ran into blockers with it.

Oh, and for working on Markdown files I use the great Typora!

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Bruh, you can literally just copy the '%USERPROFILE%.vscode\extensions' folder to the respective VSCodium folder and those extensions will appear on VSCodium as well.

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- Even with VS Code and the proprietary VS Code marketplace, I’ve run into compatibility issues with extensions when upgrading VS Code. So, I’m not too keen to start managing extension files manually. And please don’t call my "bruh".
  
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NeoVim

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I mainly just do basic bash scripting on servers so i just use vim for simplicity. And I'm looking up stuff on the side in another window.

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Whichever text editor is available, vscode, jetbrains for the language I'm using, firefox (jupyter notebooks), etc.

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Mainly Visual Studio. Lots of .NET stuff

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I'm pretty partial to vim.

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NetBeans

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VSCode, then IntelliJ, then Neovim (NvChad + awful theme of my own + Goneovim as gui frontend), and now at Emacs (Doom + port of awful theme of my own from Neovim + very heavy customization). Pretty happy with Emacs, also Org mode is astounding.

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