Neovim. It’s painful at the beginning, but I’m getting more confident and productive. IMO, it’s worth it if you’re into CLI.
I also considered JetBrains products and Zed.
Speed and battery consumption are important to me, and JetBrains is too monstrous to satisfy these criteria. Besides, JetBrains doesn’t really offer a basic code editor that you can extend with plugins. IntelliJ IDEA is meant to be like that, but it’s a huge Java IDE whether you need it or not.
Zed looked good, but I decided not to invest my time into another code editor with paid features - they tend to enshittify over time.
Quick search suggests Emacs is the only other major rival to VSCode/Neovim so you’re stuck with a TUI or a VSCode fork for a rich plugin ecosystem (non-athoritive statement, 30s web search).
Plain old Vim, with YouCompleteMe, NERDTree and TagBar installed; plus a few bindings to the leader key, is a much better IDE than anything else I’ve found. Sometimes it would be nice to a couple of the buttons that Eclipse or IDEA provide, but for pure text editing it’s unbeatable.
I’ve also found that “fancy Git dialogs” just get in the way, and learning how to use it properly from the command line stomps them all hands down. Plus, you can still use all your skills in a remote terminal.
Edit: I agree with you on git when learning. I’m old, over 15 years of experience on it. I don’t have anything to gain typing the same handful of commands I use everyday.
On the flip side, it pushed me to move away from vscode. Whoever did this, thanks.
Genuinely curious, to what?
The plugin ecosystem of vscode is why I’m still here.
Neovim. It’s painful at the beginning, but I’m getting more confident and productive. IMO, it’s worth it if you’re into CLI.
I also considered JetBrains products and Zed.
Speed and battery consumption are important to me, and JetBrains is too monstrous to satisfy these criteria. Besides, JetBrains doesn’t really offer a basic code editor that you can extend with plugins. IntelliJ IDEA is meant to be like that, but it’s a huge Java IDE whether you need it or not.
Zed looked good, but I decided not to invest my time into another code editor with paid features - they tend to enshittify over time.
Neovim. Also there for the plugin ecosystem. Some popular feature rich presets, all customizable.
https://www.lazyvim.org/ https://astronvim.com/ https://nvchad.com/
Quick search suggests Emacs is the only other major rival to VSCode/Neovim so you’re stuck with a TUI or a VSCode fork for a rich plugin ecosystem (non-athoritive statement, 30s web search).
Plain old Vim, with YouCompleteMe, NERDTree and TagBar installed; plus a few bindings to the leader key, is a much better IDE than anything else I’ve found. Sometimes it would be nice to a couple of the buttons that Eclipse or IDEA provide, but for pure text editing it’s unbeatable.
I’ve also found that “fancy Git dialogs” just get in the way, and learning how to use it properly from the command line stomps them all hands down. Plus, you can still use all your skills in a remote terminal.
I couldn’t go without LSPs these days.
Real time diagnostics. Jump to implementation. Code actions.
Its just so much faster and my code rarely doesn’t run on first try outside of logic errors, but it still runs.
https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim was nice back in the day, but neovim and the plugin ecosystem takes it to another level.
Edit: I agree with you on git when learning. I’m old, over 15 years of experience on it. I don’t have anything to gain typing the same handful of commands I use everyday.