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Which software do you mostly use for programming, and why?

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  • nnullzz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Was on VSCode, tried switching to neovim, ended up with JetBrains Goland. I might try neovim again but getting everything setup and learning new shortcuts was starting to eat up my work productivity. With Goland I have everything I need in one place.

    It probably didn’t help that at the same time, I also tried to learn to use a moonlander with a different keyboard layout.

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    • Teddly@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I had a couple aborted attempts to switch to neovim, www.lazyvim.org is what finally got me to switch. It has what I needed to get going, and I bookmarked the keymaps page as I got familiar.

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  • Blackthorn@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Personally, I mostly use neovim, both at home and at work. My reasons are:

    1. I hate any kind of screen cluttering. The minimap comes straight from hell.
    2. it’s very responsive. I don’t even bother using language servers as they occasionally introduce micro delays that I hate.
    3. it helps me in organizing the code better. No minimap means I keep the file size manageable, not seeing the definition of the function straight away means I keep the static complexity of the code in check (tend to reduce the number of delegates). It doesn’t help when I have to read cose from legacy codebase, but I don’t care too much about that.
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    • tebro@lemmy.tebro.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Neovim here as well. Though I do use LSPs. I write mostly Go in a fairly large code base so “go to definition” is pretty much a must have.

      I was considering going without and just using grep like tools, but not yet.

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    • Ismay@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You do know you can remove the minimaps (that do come from hell) ?

      Other than that, I started trying neovim. I like the concept of not having too move your “mouse” hand but boy it’s a chore to start xD

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      • minyakcurry@monyet.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        While I always remove the minimaps, may I ask someone more experienced than me why minimaps are even a thing in VSCode? What am I supposed to see? 1 pixel tall gibberish?

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      • Blackthorn@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Ofc I knew! Yeah, (neo)vim takes time to adjust. Personally I only use a bunch of commands, never bothered with the advanced stuff.

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  • neonblade@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Helix text editor

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  • gale@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wezterm + Neovim. Glorious

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    • lambda@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Why wezterm?

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      • outcide@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s fast, flexible and the author is super responsive to bugs / feature requests.

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  • Endorkend@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Mostly Visual Studio Ultimate for general workloads, regardless of what I'm writing for, it has the facilities to support pretty much every compiler and format.

    For quickly editing / patching some source on Linux, just plain Nano.

    Otherwise, these days, mainly VSCode.

    But if I get into an environment where it's another IDE, I wouldn't care either way.

    I'm language and editor agnostic and use editors out of convenience (like having Visual Studio Ultimate available to me) and languages depending on what is most appropriate for the task.

    My biggest pet peeve in development is that people keep shoehorning their preferred language onto any task.

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    • TrustingZebra@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Visual Studio Ultimate is so heavy though. I wouldn’t want to use it other than the languages it was designed for.

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      • Endorkend@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Heavy?

        For some measly Macbook or style over substance laptop maybe, but I can't say I've ever had any sort of trouble running it on any of my hardware, laptops included.

        Granted, my start in IT 3 decades ago was as a solo admin for a medium sized company after having been a gamer and overclocker for years before that, I know as much about the actual hardware I work with as I do about programming.

        And from what I run into in the field, especially these days, the vast majority of developers wouldn't even know how to install an OS or know what hardware is in the system they use, it's pretty much "laptop goes brrrrr" and that's about it. No wonder most devs these days write absolutely horrible code in terms of optimization and resource usage.

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  • chocoboi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    ChatGPT… because I’m terrible at programming.

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  • ggnoredo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Emacs because i feel like dumb on other editors, on emacs every action is instant with out any mouse input

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  • 0x0@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    vim, vscodium, android studio 'cos i’m forced to.

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    • theRealBassist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Was not aware of VSCodium! Does it still play nice with the plugin system and such?

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      • 0x0@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Depending on your plugins you may have to fiddle with it to fetch from the official store instead, but generally works great.

        It actually honors the “don’t guess the encoding, use this one” config.

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      • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        No. Not really. And it’s not Codium’s fault, it is Microsoft’s. Codium seems like Chromium but with how Microsoft’s extension marketplace’s terms of use work and the licensing terms on compiled extensions it is sadly different. This is all the more reason to use Codium and to encourage devs of extensions to host extensions on the open marketplace in addition to or even in place of the official one.

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  • TheCee@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Git, probably

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  • bl_r@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Neovim + LLDB, because I like vim motions and hate electron apps.

    At work I used VS Code with vim integration, or an OpenSUSE tumbleweed VM with neovim, which I “integrated” into the windows terminal. Unfortunately, WSL was not allowed due to valid security concerns.

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  • JDubbleu@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    IntelliJ for Java Pycharm for Python VS Code for everything else

    I use the Jetbrains IDEs through Gateway to my dev desktop, and VS Code through SSH.

    I work at AWS and the tight integration of the Jetbrains IDEs with our internal package manager/build system is a must. I frequently need to do some lighter scripting or text formatting at which point I just use VS Code because it’s faster. I could realistically use any of them for everything, but I’ve realized using 3 IDEs that suit my multiple use cases perfectly has been more enjoyable than using one IDE that does one thing perfect, and everything else just okay.

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    • jelloeater85@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I never got the whole emacs vs vim thing… I’m here to get work done, not wax about editors all day 🤪 JetBrains on a Mac.

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  • cheerjoy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    nvim for smaller projects, and vscode for larger ones mostly. Both because they’re very extensible, support a lot of languages and language servers, and are quick to load files.

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  • case_when@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Reading these comments, there sure aren’t a lot of R programmers out there.

    RStudio for R, Spyder for Python, Emacs for either of the above when I want to be cool.

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  • Aggravationstation@lemmy.film ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Microsoft Developer Studio. It’s what Elon Musk uses and he’s a genius.

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    • DerColonel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This answer looks like it would be funny if I understood it

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      • Aggravationstation@lemmy.film ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5EvdPxLKJ4

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    • potterman28wxcv@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I doubt Elon Musk does programming

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      • Aggravationstation@lemmy.film ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        He did. Just of C64 games that didn’t sell well

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  • kassuro@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Mostly intellij ultimate, and sometimes VSCode as jetbrains Vue Support is not as good as the official plugin for VSCode.

    It’s really weird they don’t want to show type errors inside the template, but whatever.

    Other than that, I try to integrate AI assistants into my workflow. Currently trying out Cody, which works good sonfar, but I think without the sourcegraph integration it can’t show it full potential. But 50k$ seems a little expensive for my company haha

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  • Chreutz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m stuck on windows in the IDE of a certain large chip manufacturer for doing embedded DSP. God, I wish I could have any level of customization. But at least it has vim mode.

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  • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    neovim. I have customized my config to my liking over the past couple of years. + it also can opn embedded terminals, so I don’t have to leave the editor at all while working

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  • RTRedreovic@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Have not done any in a while due to other work. But mostly consisted of Helix (editor) in multiple Alacritty (terminal emulator) instances (AWM Dynamic Window Manager for Window Management). That’s all that would be open. All my work is on the terminal; easy, fast, to the point, no visual obstructions. (In fact I ironically find it inconvenient in my case to use GUI Applications these days.)

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  • jelloeater85@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Micro for quick CLI edits. VSCode for mashing text and PowerShell JetBrains Suite for everything else. LazyGit is amazing BTW. Pairs well with LazyDocker.

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I write Bash and simpler Python scripts in Vim.

    I use Thonny for my larger Python projects and MicroPython, when I mess around with that.

    I write GDScript in Godot’s editor.

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  • akselmo@lemmy.kde.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Kate text editor. I only use vscodium if i really have to, usually at work.

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    • insomniac_lemon@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It's what I use (want something lightweight but haven't tried much), although the build plugin seems to forget its data randomly, has happened twice to me so far.

      @drew_belloc

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    • drew_belloc@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve used kate a good time ago, it’s my favorite linux default gui text editor

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  • cwagner@lemmy.cwagner.me ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    A few years ago, mainly VS with R#, nowadays, Jetbrains Rider, Webstorm, intelliJ in that order.

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  • Nomad@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Geany for syxntax highlightning. Then alot of git precommit hooks for linting, formatting, etc.

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    • Solaris1789@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Geany gang assemble

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  • yournamehere@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    how much time will it take?

    just an edit: nano

    maybe use some highlighting: xed

    more than 15min of work: atom

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    • lolcabanon@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Is there a fork of atom or you are still using the latest version (1.60.3 or something?)

      It was my IDE for some time but i’ve been using codium since it’s been deprecated.

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      • yournamehere@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        still 1.63.1 like www.neowin.net/…/atom-1630---the-last-release/

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  • dsco@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Geany for quick edits, and VSCode for everything else. Think I may try Sublime soon.

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  • Jocarnail@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    RStudio for R and data analysis projects because it has a great integration imo. VSC for most else. I am trying neovim and considering trying emacs.

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  • UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    For larger projects, JetBrain’s IDEs, except VSCode for JS related stuff. A full IDE is simply so much nicer when you got a lot of stuff going on in multiple files, which is a weak point for VSCode in my experience.

    For smaller projects/single file scripts, VSCode works just fine. The amount of plugins available also makes it very suitable of you are dealing with non text based files like UML.

    For small text files I prefer npp for its light weight.

    Other than text editors, git is mandatory for all projects for obvious reasons, and WSL if I’m on windows.

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  • MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Vim.

    If I were a more competent coder I might use a bigger IDE, but for the basic stuff I do, it works great for me.

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    • abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Usually it’s the other way around. Incompetent programmers use the big ide’s, because they don’t know how to run their code without the ide’s “play button”. I wouldn’t recommend vim to a beginner.

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      • MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Oh I wouldn’t say I’m a beginner. I’ve been scripting and coding for… 20 something years. I’m just not very skilled. Stuff I write tends to be simple and small, so all I really want from my editing is auto indenting and syntax highlighting.

        I think if I was trying to manage a larger project I might find use in an IDE, though perhaps it is more of a crutch.

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    • ck_@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Competence in programming and the editor / IDE you use do not correlate. Competence in programming comes from writing code. Competence in using your tooling comes from investing into mastering your tooling. The question you want to answer for yourself is: does the tool that I’m using help me to get the job done or does it get in your way on a regular basis. If it’s the former, great, just stick with what you are doing. If it’s the later, change the things that stop you from being more productive.

      The only thing to avoid in my opinion would be constantly jumping on the “latest and greatest” band wagon, as that will keep you stuck a the expert beginner level forever.

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  • independantiste@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    For me it’s mainly VSCode with extensions for the languages I use. I could use Jetbrains IDEs but they are just so slow and heavy that I don’t really consider them unless I need a specific feature

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