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I use vim mainly. I'm not very good with it, but I use it because 1) I hate electron, and 2) I like modal (i.e. Vim) editing. There aren't very many non-Electron modal editors nowadays. Onivim looked promising but it's been abandoned so I've never gotten to try it. Lapce looks cool, but it's not mature yet.

(it also makes me feel ultra cool when other people see me programming )

Notepad++, since it's not based on electron and it's a really good editor, not really an IDE tho.

No options for the JetBrains IDEs?

I use Rider mainly, and I use PhpStorm when doing stuff with phpBB. I got the JetBrains IDEs for free with GitHub Student Pack in college, and just never stopped...now I pay the full yearly subscription to get all of them. Considering I do this as a career, this is worth it. Plus they have lots of nice accessible themes for my blindness, and I wrote my JetBrains screen reader plugin.

I used to use Visual Studio back in 2015 but stopped liking it when 2017 came out and the Visual Studio installer became an entire program you had to install. It also always used to lag and go "Not Responding" in larger projects, even on my current computer. Not sure how VS2022 is nowadays but VS2017 left a very sour taste in my mouth.

Edit: I can't read, I need more coffee. Missed the very obvious "One of the Jetbrains IDEs" option.

Let the editor wars begin

This is kinda the same thing as this.

Oh god I am blind. I don't know how I didn't see the other one

I use sublime, but for longest time i used notepad++

i think using cat to get the contents of a file and using echo {string} >> {file}.{format} is the only real way to do things.

nah using windows 95 notepad in wine is the best text editor

All jokes aside I just use neovim its not hard to use and its better then most text editiors, and isn't just a web browser.

also emacs sucks and you know it.

Shaddow798 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 07, 2023 4:02 am also emacs sucks and you know it.

As an Emacs user, it is both good and bad. It has so many odd defaults that it is tedious to reconfigure them to my preferences but I do not know any other "modern" editors that can load, view, edit and save HTML files in EUC-JP encoding for my personal website

Yeah I think I'll merge this into the other IDE thread.

flatrute wrote: ↑Sat Jan 07, 2023 7:46 am As an Emacs user, it is both good and bad. It has so many odd defaults that it is tedious to reconfigure them to my preferences but I do not know any other "modern" editors that can load, view, edit and save HTML files in EUC-JP encoding for my personal website

To be fair ive honestly never really used emacs. I just havn't bothered. For some reason i like hating emacs even though i just havn't tried to use it.

Vim... and nothing else than that for years, now.

Some people say it is just a text editor, but with the right plugins I find it even more powerful than current IDEs.

And I hate everything based on Electron, which is just swallowing resources and is spreading like Covid-19.

My main source of income is a Ruby on Rails app, so RubyMine.

Used VS Code for years but having switched to JetBrains IDEs, honestly, there's a reason people pay for them. If you're working on "larger" projects, especially if they're ones that you make money from, I wholeheartedly recommend giving them a try.

I also have a license for Sublime Text which I rarely use.