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DoctorWhatIf
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Hello everybody. First time ranter, so please be nice.

Starting off with a classic: text editors.

I'm mainly a .net developer, so I mostly use Visual Studio (with vim key bindings), and (g)vim for everything else. However, visual studio code is slowly winning me over. It's sleek, it's pretty, and does a lot of cool stuff. It doesn't do all that vim does though (or does it in ways I don't yet know), and is slightly less customizable. On the other hand, vim sometimes feels like too much overhead for what I use it for.

What do you guys think? What do you use, and what personal gripes do you have?

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  • 5
    8y
    Recently i have moved from vim to vscode, because you cannot debug, read documentation, use git and use split screen with multiple tabs in the same way. Vim has been always a bit tideous and felt that i was the one adjusting to vim, and it should be the other way around. VsCode feels natural and is great for bigger projects. I still use vim to edit some config files or quickly change something but for coding i prefer vs.
    And for the note here, i code in rust/c/js.
  • 3
    8y
    Welcome to rant!
    Have an upvote!
  • 3
    8y
    Welcome! Vim on Linux, DBArtisan and Notepad++ in Windows. Oracle DBA.
  • 1
    8y
    @iAmNaN why not using vim or gvim on Windows, then?
    Nothing against notepad++, but vim walks circles around it.
  • 0
    8y
    @Proseq yeah, I think that's more or less how I feel. Vim is good but too demanding.
    I tried neovim once or twice, but it was still too unstable, so it was yet more work for +- the same 😑
  • 2
    8y
    I've been using Atom a lot recently, very customisable.
  • 0
    8y
    @spdr I've heard good things about Atom, but never tried it. IIRC VSCode is based on Atom.
    Have you by any chance tried both, and have some opinions about them?
  • 2
    8y
    @DoctorWhatIf Notepad++ accomplishes what I need in a very simple manner.
  • 1
    8y
    @iAmNaN Fair enough. I think simplicity is usually underrated ☺
  • 0
    8y
    Didn't know VSCode was based on Atom, but since I now know that, I'll never switch from Sublime Text 3. I have probably tried every single code editor under the sun (except VSCode) and so far Sublime Text is by far the best. It's ugly when you first open it, but there are themes that'll make it just as pretty as its counterparts and there's an abundance of packages out there for Sublime as well. I like the fact that it is truly a native app, and that's what deters me from using web-based Brackets, Atom and now that I learned, VSCode as well...
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