Programming

I've moved back to hand-written.

JetBrains IDEs for me

Neovim, and secondly lazygit. I guess you could count tmux too. I live in the terminal

It's just what I like man, it's very customizable and wraps around my workflow instead of me wrapping around it's workflow. I think about doing a thing and at a point muscle memory kicks in and the thing happens.

A magnetized needle and a steady hand.

Mostly just Visual Studio Code, alongside the usual constellation of Git + assorted language toolchains.

It's plug and play at every level - no need to waste hours fucking around with an Emacs or (Neo)Vim configuration just to get a decent development environment set up.

(And yes, I would use Codium, but the remote containers extension is simply too good.)

I currently use VSCode. I did use Emacs for quite a while, and it in itself is a fantastic editor (if not, an operating system :^), don't get me wrong. But I had a few reasons for switching.

• Emacs is a very rigorous editor to configure, and whilst it comes with many features out of the box, a lot of those are either broken, or highly unfinished / unpolished, so it is effectively required to manually configure your environment. This also includes that the codebase for GNU Emacs itself is, and is still built upon, a fossil, and it can show it's age in a few ways. VSCode is typically ready for development out of the box, if not, easy to get set up using plugins, and customization usually just takes tweaking a few things in the settings.json at most.
• Improved language support is a must in many cases. Emacs language support or LSP is usually good, but in some cases it can be quite unoptimized (for example, the Dart LSP client on Emacs does not run well whatsoever in my experience). On VSCode, the language plugins are quite often official, and can come with some extremely helpful features.
  • On this, Jupyter Notebook is absolutely perfect on VSCode. Yes, Org Mode works great, but Jupyter is typically the most expected in my usecase, especially in standardized data science. EIN works, but it's not nearly as smooth and efficient to use as the VSCode support is.

Again, Emacs is great, I configured my environment myself using parts from Nano Emacs, and a good Evil mode configuration is an ergonomic dream (yes, I also use VSCodeVim), but it gets tiring to maintain it after a while, and I just want something that works, and VSCode fits that bill, not just perfectly, but with flying colors to all of my other requirements.

PyCharm. Does pretty much everything I need. Work paid for it.

• syntax highlighting
• auto complete and suggestions
• find usages/definition
• refactor
  • delete
  • move
  • extract
  • rename
• git integration
• SQL integration
• steps into library code
• connect to sources installed in docker
• probably other stuff I take for granted and can't think of now

I've had some coworkers who are more "steady hand and a magnetized needle" and I don't know how they do it. Like I was collaborating with a guy and watching him manually find and rename stuff was painful. Though I think a lot of people just don't know how to use their tools. There's a lot of stuff in pycharm I dont use.

I'm still slightly salty about an old coworker that would use vanilla sublime and make PRs full of easily caught errors. "Can you approve my pr?" "No dude the linter failed. Did you ever set up any of the tooling locally?" "Nah"

Neovim of Helix whenever i feel like it. They are just lightweight and i love it

Emacs. I've created a niceish workflow with it. I really like how it's so easy to change anything. There are also loads of incredibly useful plugins, so that's cool.

My own custom text-editor, because it's written to fit into my environment exactly how I want it.

CLion & PyCharm.

Platform independent, and "just work". Not missing any functionality I ever wanted and with a new machine even CLion's almost legendary slowness is under control.

VS Code. It's dead easy to use, has a ton of useful plugins, and it's customizable while also being enjoyable to use right out of the box.

For AI assisted coding, I use Cody or GPT-4 data analysis on my personal projects. I tried copilot and found that it actually made my productivity worse. Often as not, I found myself stopping and second guessing whether I was stupid or if it was copilot, and it was usually copilot. GPT-4 is really great for problem solving a specific problem or getting some feedback on some bad smelling code, and Cody works great for helping to write my code faster.

Good old fashioned knitting of ring magnets!

Jetbrains' IDEs. Cuz they're Linux native, not by M$ and look nice and uniform IMO. For things that don't require a full blown IDE I just use vim.

IntelliJ

Neovim (nvchad) with copilot to write Rust. Why? The terminal environment is super flexible: I have 2 desktops and a laptop running on Arch Linux, all the same dotfiles with tmux to keep my sessions alive.

It all depends on your application domain: I mainly build embedded Linux code for a transportation drone.

Vim

Doom emacs, i just love the keyboard centric workflow that it provides

Notepad++, because I'm dumb and only know HTML. (That counts as programming, right?)

Vim + fugitive

Jetbrains IDEs (IntelliJ and Pycharm) and QtCreator. I also use git, gcc, and valgrind.

Notepad++, because I mostly program OpenTTD mods.

I'm a sysadmin that spends most of his time automating shit with PowerShell. VSCode/Codium is where I do most of my scripting work.

Exclusively IntelliJ Ultimate, cause that's what my work pays for. I try not to program outside of work.

Sublime on my laptop, vim remotely over ssh

IntelliJ with Vim plugin, for the obvious reasons.

Helix. It’s fairly vimlike, but with sensible defaults and no plugins so I don’t have to waste any time configuring it. It has good lsp and linting support for the languages I use (js & dart). My config is one line, to set the theme to match my terminal.

VSCode for anything complex and running locally, vim for everything else

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.

Wezterm + Neovim. Glorious

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.