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I use vscode for my personal projects (c++ and a fully open source stack, compiling for both Linux and Windows).

I'm using the proprietary version of vscode (via the aur) for the plugin repository, but I've always envied the open source version...

Are there any tools that have made you excited?

Bonus points if they have some support for compiling with MSVC (or if you can convince me to ditch it for something else).

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[-] 0x01@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

Vscode when I'm feeling productive, neovim when I'm feeling saucy

Hate pretty much every other ide out there, but do occasionally get forced into Android studio or xcode. Xcode is the worst, msvs a close second.

One day a multi cursor first multi-language extension lightweight ide will replace vscode I'm sure but it's solid for now.

[-] Clearwater@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

VSCod(ium). Jetbrains IDEs are arguably better (I've used this some in the past), but I like OSS and having all languages in one IDE (even though some languages may not be integrated as well as others).

[-] refalo@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago
[-] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 2 points 3 weeks ago

That looks interesting, I see it's been discontinued 2 years ago though, is there a maintained fork that you use?

Xcode because I build iOS apps.

[-] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Microsoft just released Edit a couple of days ago. At least it's not bloated, and it's cross-platform.

Vim when I can, and when I can't, Neovim with plugins (LazyVim). Both are fast. I have had troubles with Neovim and configuration, and it does some things that really annoy me (like autoclosing parentheses - it just messes up everything). Honestly, the only feature that I really need is Go To Definition.

But vim - I absolutely love it. I started using it nearly 20 years ago and it still does everything one could want if you're willing to learn the keymaps and commands. Macros, ci), block indentation and so on. It's even great for editing XML. If the codebases I'm working on these days weren't so large and complicated, I would still be using it with very little configuration in my .vimrc.

[-] joshzcold@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I don't use lazyvim, but I found the "auto pairs" plugin you can try to disable

https://www.lazyvim.org/plugins/coding#minipairs

I just disabled this today and life is so much better. Thanks! Everything works so much better now.

[-] 5ymm3trY@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 weeks ago

That is not a vanilla NeoVim feature. This is done by some plugin of LazyVim like Josh suggested.

[-] andrewth09@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago
[-] CodeBlooded@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago

VS Code at work, Zed at home.

Despite Zed crashing my laptop every once in a while, it's been a refreshing change-up from VS Code.

I use a vim extension in both btw...

[-] Flipper@feddit.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

Doesn't Zed have a vim mode by default?

[-] CodeBlooded@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago

Okay, so I’m not using an extension in Zed* (but am using vim mode btw)

https://zed.dev/docs/vim

[-] astrsk@fedia.io 3 points 3 weeks ago

Jetbrains Rider for C# and VSCodium for arduino / microcontroller programming.

I’m trying to learn my way around the tmux + neovim life but the learning curve might be too much for me.

[-] Kissaki@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

My preference is Visual Studio. For some technologies, and mass-text-replace, I use Visual Studio Code.

A long time ago my main IDE was Eclipse for C++ and Java before that. Recently, I've tried RustRover for Rust as an alternative to VS Code.

[-] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

Visual Studio debugger is still best thing ever. It is strange how much poorer vscode's debugger is compared to visual studio.

[-] Goretantath@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

Notepad++, all i do is edit java class files.

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 3 weeks ago

I use jupyter notebooks on VSCode

[-] Tramort@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago

I love kdevelop

[-] hosaka@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago

Rider for Unreal Engine at work. Neovim at work/home for literally everything else (web, golang, python, zig). I have vscodium as well, a glorified config file editor basically.

[-] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

VSCode. Before it, Sublime.

[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Lately the most frequent ide/editors I've been using are sublime text, eclipse, and teXworks. I'd like to replace sublime text, maybe go back to emacs or give neovim a try. I'll probably get rid of eclipse once I can replace the ee containers with self contained apps, I used vs code for a bit with java and it was fine but the ee server container integration wasn't great, this was a couple years ago I last tried though.

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