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So I know I've asked before... but all you Linux developers out there.. Whats your favorite multi-language IDE?
@freemo Don't know exactly what you mean by "Linux developers" but if you mean programmers who use linux OSes, then I am used to mainly using vim Just today after reading a tutorial did I decide to try Visual Studio Code. It's pretty alright. Haven't done much coding in it yet. But if you're wondering about programmers use of IDEs you might find the following useful: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#development-environments-and-tools
@wileECoyote I've seen that link before, its great. But was hoping to have more of a discussion.
Any flavor of Vim you like? You think VS will be your new main?
@freemo Umm the default vim that comes on Ubuntu and on w/e server I'm on? haha I like to customize the colors a bit, and as a python dev that wants to hit the tab key for indents but hates tabs in my code, I bound the tab key to make four spaces. But that's about it. I think I'm gonna try to make VSC my main. It may get me out of the dark ages of print statements for debugging, and may make me more efficient. We'll have to see if it's more annoying or more useful.
@wileECoyote Fair, I moved in the opposite direction from GUI based IDE into VIM and emacs style lately.
@wileECoyote I used to use a number of different IDEs depending on my needs.. Jetbrain series (differet IDE for each language), and Atom were the most common, though I tried almost every IDE under the sun.
Right now my main IDE is Spacemacs.. it technically runs in Emacs but it runs Evil which is a VIM emulator so feels like your in VIM not emacs in most ways.. Spacemacs adds a lot on top of what you get with plain old VIM, tons of features.
There are also similar things that run directly on VIM (including Spacevim).
I switched largely because I find GUIs that rely on lots of mouse interaction tedious and slow. I also find many of the features lacking that I like, for example spacemacs has layers that lets me customize the layout for each project. Also has all sorts of nice features too numerous to go into, but largely the fact that it works via keyboard only is a great timesaver for me.
@freemo Yea some guy on IRC recommended Atom to me earlier. I've never really dev tools like you have. I'm beginning to wonder what I'll like though. If there's too much mouse involved I may switch back and look into some of those options like Spacevim. Thanks for bringing them to my attention. I'm used to no mouse so if I'm forced to use the mouse often, I'm gonna dislike that. I was able to configure my window to use all the same keys as I would in vim, so maybe it'll work.
@wileECoyote If you decide to try flavors of vim and emacs let me know. There are half a dozen or so I could recommend.
@freemo I'm gonna hit the sack now though dude. Thanks for the info you've given me. I'm sure I'll see you here again soon.
@wileECoyote sleep well, nice chatting.
@freemo What GUI did you use? Why did you leave? What do you like more about vim? I used emacs in college and really preferred it over vim, but then every server I went onto only had vim so vim became my main.