The key to being productive as a programmer is to have a great code editor. I have been an avid user of Atom since 2014, and its successor Pulsar since now in 2023.\n

Pulsar (former Atom) is still the best code editor in my opinion. It is easiest and fastest to use, has all the nice productivity boosting plugins and is overall great for all the same reasons the Atom was great. 🚀

See also !pulsaredit@lemmy.ml

  • varsock@programming.dev
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    9 months ago

    Had a distinguished collegue (from the Bell Lab days) say to me recently:

    “IDEs take up a lot of RAM on my machine. Vim takes up a lot of squishy RAM in my head. I need squishy RAM to hold info relevant to problem solving, not options available in my tool chain.”

      • Royce@mastodon.social
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        9 months ago

        @LucidDaemon @Aurenkin out of curiosity, how long have you been using Helix and what do you like about it? I tried it awhile back and liked it, but it wasn’t able to break VS Code’s iron grip on my dev workflow.

        • LucidDaemon@lemmy.world
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          9 months ago

          About 6 months since I’ve switched away from vscode. To make Helix worth it you also need to use software that compliments it.

          I work in DevOps, so I don’t do a ton of programming but everything I do is via terminal. I use Kitty Terminal, ZSH with oh-my-zsh for the shell, Zellij for an emulation layer (think tiling and tab manager in kitty), nnn for in terminal file manager, and helix for editor.

          I almost never leave the terminal now, except when web browsing.

          • spartanatreyu@programming.dev
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            9 months ago

            I remember being really interested in Helix when it came out, but it didn’t have a built-in file picker.

            Is this still an issue for users? Is there a built-in solution, or a usermade solution to this?

            Also, is there plugin support?

            I can’t use an editor without rainbow indent/brackets, without them code just takes too long to read that it becomes frustrating.

            • Turun@feddit.de
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              9 months ago

              Space-f lets you open a file in the current workspace, and :open /path always let’s you open any file on the computer

              Plugin support not yet I think. Not gonna lie, I chose helix over nvim for it’s good out of the box experience, so I didn’t actually have a need for plugins yet.

              Fair enough. That would be a use case for a plugin (or simply a setting!)

              • spartanatreyu@programming.dev
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                9 months ago

                Space-f lets you open a file in the current workspace, and :open /path always let’s you open any file on the computer

                Is this a file tree, or just a fuzzy finder?

                Fuzzy finders aren’t a substitute for a file tree picker. They’re only great, until you don’t know the name of a file, or until you need to know of a file’s existence in the first place.

                • Turun@feddit.de
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                  9 months ago

                  File tree not a file tree like in a file explorer, more like the output of find, but with filtering. The letters you type to restrict your search only need to present in that order in the file path, not as a string.

                  So “abc” would match “./assets/others/abort/cancel.png”, not just “./assets/abc.png”

                  Additionally, lower case letters match case insensitive, upper case letters match case sensitive. This is surprisingly helpful if you don’t use exclusively lowercase file names.

  • varsock@programming.dev
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    9 months ago

    code is just text, so code editors are text editors.

    What sets IDEs apart are their features, like debugger integrations, refactoring assists, etc.

    I love command line ± Vim and used solely it for a large portion of my career but that was back when you had a few big enterprise languages (C/C++, Java).

    With micro services being language agnostic, I find I use a larger variety of languages. And configuring and remembering an environment for rust, go, c, python etc. is just too much mental overhead. Hard to beat JetBrain’s IDEs; now-a-days I bring my Vim navigation key bindings to my IDE instead of my IDE features to Vim. And I pay a company to work out the IDE features.

    for the record, I am in the boat of, use whatever brings you the greatest joy/productivity.

    • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      text editors

      Yes, I use MS Word then print as image to pdf. Outlook works too, but it’s less secure, and Power Point is too fancy for my taste (I don’t like animated transitions when my code wraps between columns). It’s amazing how far we’ve come from punched cards, and how fast, I can barely keep up.