I tried 10 code editors

The top 10 code editors for programmers in 2022. We start by exploring simple text editors like vim, then show the evolution to IDEs like Visual Studio.
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[@gvarph7212]

My favorite part of the video is that all the terminal-based IDEs were shown inside the VSCode integrated terminal

[@cubeofcheese5574]

😯

[@Allumik]

rookie mistake :D

[@wykeless]

😂 thought it looked familiar

[@benonardo]

he always does that when showing the terminal in videos

[@4cps777]

To be fair, VSCode is probably the only IDE that gets its integrated terminal right. (I don't count Emacs as an IDE)

[@Neoh53]

i program on paper. Really easy to use. For exemple if i want to go to any line, no keys need to be pressed, i am already on it with my eyes. To erase a line i select the eraser tool and skrtch skrtch the line i want to remove. If i make an error, i don't know it until my CS professor give me a low grade. It force me to program like a pro and make no mistakes. Also to exit it, it way easier because i just push the paper away from me.

[@JonasBergling]

I used to do that for real, on the train to school when I was like 10.

[@Felipera_]

Oh yes, first year of CS is fun.

[@everyhandletaken]

Do you mail in your commits too? 😂

[@pedrogouveiasousa]

So fun so fun hahahaha, can't stop laughing, you're so fun dude 😎

[@HuntingKingYT]

I do it when my PC is off

[@IanSlothieRolfe]

I was a contract programmer for many years, working on Unix and Linux systems, so I used VI or VIM for most of the time, unless the client had a specific setup they used. This was mainly because VI was everywhere, and for the most part my time with the company was in the 6-12 month period and setting up something complex like EMACS wouldn't have been a useful use of time. It was far from ideal, but it worked for me and much of my work was hunting down minor bugs that no-one else wanted to do, so the actual amount of typing of code or editing was limited to small changed or shifting about blocks of code, things that VI do adequately. I once bought a Sublime Text licence which I still use to this day now I am retired (after I pinned my version when they retrospectively changed the licencing) where I'm no longer concerned about having the same setup wherever I go. I have started to think about Visual Studio because its used a lot in the Arduino/ESP32 community and can be used for the other languages I regularly use (Python, various assemblers) and I'm toying with the idea of C Sharp if only out of interest and making Linux/Windows compatible graphicy programs. My general advice is the best IDE or Editor is the one you use most, in reality most people use less than 10% of the functionality of even simpler editors, and the most important thing is how well it integrates with the other tools you use like source management, cloud storage, and the languages you use. Thonny is a great little tool when working with MicroPython and other embedded programming, but the editor is limited which is mitigated somewhat because the programs you are developing are also usually small.

[@sibtenajam9774]

can you guide me in programming

[@veselinjokanovic3032]

An OG gigachad programmer. Respect sir.

[@balasuar]

Right? Back in the day the reason everyone should bother to learn VI was it came installed on pretty much every system. If you're still thinking about cross-platofrm applications, you might want to consider using Electron, and taking advantage of webtooling. Outside of that, sublime text + terminal is really all you need.

[@bassyey]

Even today I just remote Linux systems and AWS instances everyday in my job. I mostly use VIM for small changes. I'll setup a remote vscode remote if there's anything significant.

[@murtajiz545]

I feel like I just ran into a grand level mage. Wow.

[@audiopainter68]

TIMESTAMPS: 0:53 : VI 2:10 : EMACS 3:26 : VIM 4:25 : neoVIM 4:52 : Nano 5:30 : Notepad 6:07 : Dreamweaver 6:46 : VScode 7:52 : platforms specific IDE’s 8:00 : VSstudio for Microsoft’s .NET framework 8:36 : JetBrains

[@itRemindsMeThatItNotSoBad]

10:20 : Dont do drugs

[@DestopLine]

Visual Studio studio

[@go9565]

3:02 :booger eater

[@joaozinhogameplays14000]

ty !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@CatMeowMeow]

Using a jetbrains ide feels like using photoshop: it has everything you'll never need, with amazing features multiple menus feel you keep uncovering. But it also has weird features, like a button to print your terminal output to a printer?

[@JAVAxNANI]

😂

[@NachitenRemix]

I think that the difference between jetbrains and photoshop (following the comparison) is that jetbrains is veeery intuitive as an ide, while adobe is sometimes very overwhelmimg and not suitable for beginners. With jetbrains you can use as much tools as you need, and only learn them when you actually need them, and take your time.

[@Shulkerkiste]

So VSC feels like GIMP right?

[@betelgeuse4568]

How different is it to vscode or visual studio.

[@thatonedumbguy2173]

@@betelgeuse4568 vscode tends to be a bit more lightweight feature wise

[@RichardPerfectKiwi]

One really important point about editors is that your project should not need a specific editor to write code. Looking at you Eclipse. Every member of the team should be able to pick whichever editor they want. All build scripts should exist outside of the editor itself because your code should last for decades and many editors will come and go.

[@__lasevix_]

Why does eclipse even exist? I've only ever heard negative opinions on it..

[@rihasanatrofolo2472]

@@__lasevix_ What's wrong with eclipse?

[@__lasevix_]

@@rihasanatrofolo2472 idk, a lot of things from what I remember

[@ahuman32478]

@@rihasanatrofolo2472 Pretty sure people hate it because it's an IDE for Java, and everyone hates Java (not me tho)

[@klasterdev154]

@@rihasanatrofolo2472 everything is wrong with eclipse. Some years ago I wrote my diploma project using vim and I still haven’t felt more pain in the ass than when I was using eclipse

[@34disorder84]

Been using VS Community for ages but decided to try out VS Code after watching this. Dear god, it's so much better for me. I never needed 90% of the features of VS and it feels so much better without all the visual bloat, since i can actually hide all the stuff i don't need. I even set myself a cute lil background image with the Shalldie plugin and together with the Dracula theme everything looks beautiful!

[@KRYMauL]

VSCode is good, but IntelliJ is 1000x better. Fleet sound amazing.

[@fluffyfirehydrant]

@@KRYMauL what if - and hear me out here - what if they're not writing java?

[@KRYMauL]

@@fluffyfirehydrant Fleet works with a ton of languages. I hope they keep it a free version docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vTWt9RlJPfIJwD5H7Gsqbu9xHTd-K1oj_zCpP6YIQq8xvjARDYqC6OnVIVt5WPi2-B-vWHZw5qMnhvx/pubhtml?gid=0&single=true

[@denis4096]

@@KRYMauL IntelliJ is slow, sometimes a little bit buggy and only for specific programming languages or you buy an ultimate licence model that costs a lot of money. I have worked for 2 years with this IDE in my company and finaly switched to VS Code. But it is everybodies personal preference wich IDE fits best for their needs and personal workflow. There is no "best Tool", every IDE has it's own features, advantages, pitfalls and productivity mechanics. My employees all use different IDE's and that's okay, they are free to choose wich Tool-Stack they want work with.

[@KRYMauL]

@@denis4096 VSCode is good, but the debugger is annoying to get setup. I recommended IntelliJ because OC is a student, so they get Ultimate for free. I’m going to look into Fleet today.

[@Sakrosankt-Bierstube]

I had 200 IDEs when i started programming. I actually started with notepad++ (i didn't understand linux back then), than eclipse and atom, after a while i started to use ubuntu and used vim for a while but then.. i found IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate.. one IDE.. nearly every scripting and programming language... i love it!!

[@pimas11]

I agree I love their products, integrated database features are always super useful

[@crownie9652]

00:50 - Vi 02:10 - Emacs 03:24 - Vim 04:25 - Neovim 04:51 - Nano 05:30 - Notepad / Notepad++ 06:05 - what? 💀 (Dreamweaver) 06:38 - Sublime text - Brackets - Atom 06:46 - Visual Studio Code 08:02 - Visual Studio 08:38 - Jet Brains

[@Simboiss]

Of course, Xcode is absent. What a surprise.

[@henryinman4301]

@@Simboiss xcode is mentioned in the vscode section

[@daffy1981]

10:21 Don't do drugs

[@erwinmatys]

@@Simboiss xcode is so bad apple have to force you to use it

[@Simboiss]

@@erwinmatys How is it bad?

[@TayambaMwanza]

For Angular 2+ devs: Webstorm can automatically import ngmodules for you when you declare a component or feature, e.g if you write *ngif it can automatically import CommonModule. Also Webstorm has Vim emulation, I'll tell you more once I figure out how to exit.

[@prowhiskey2678]

this among many, many other things

[@icarojose6316]

if you use Synfomy or Strapi Webstorm can link those magical classes so when you do cmd/ctrl + click it takes you to where the function was declared, even though it's only linked at compilation time using magic imports.

[@ReviloYaj]

Been needing that feature in vs code so badly...

[@d-e-v-esh]

JetBrains is the only platform where their VIM integration is almost flawless. The only other one that is kind of comparable to it is the neovim extension for vscode.

[@everyhandletaken]

Lol 👏🏼

[@ClaudioBOsorio]

This video is 7 months old and I've learned so much. Got all the notifications turned on from now on !!!

[@jynxycats]

I am a webstorm advocate as well. It's hard to think anything could be as useful as VSCode, until you see the level of extra IDE functionality you gain. Of course, price could be a concern, but if it helps you do a job faster, then it's an investment!

[@flupydup]

Webstorm's interface feels responsive and eye candy, making coding more enjoyable than vscode.

[@Nocare89]

I agree. I rage-quit vscode because it was getting too slow for my 10yr old machine to handle. When I initially picked up vscode a decade ago, it was because it was faster than atom. Tried sublime and it was meh. Booted webstorm trial and I haven't looked back. It's fast and does everything. I was even able to remove postman from my workflow. Another bloated slow app I hated using. I wrote a setup instructions document the other day and discovered if I drop ```bash ``` lines in a markdown file I then get little arrows to execute those blocks. Such a little QOL type of thing i'd never even think of.

[@Imperial_Squid]

Important to note, JetBrains can be a bit pricey but if you're a student/academic you can get all their stuff for free with your university email! I got PyCharm as part of a software bundle when I started my undergrad and I would honestly struggle to use anything else at this point...!

[@HadToChangeMyName_YoutubeSucks]

It is pricey, but I do this for a living. If I were a professional mechanic I'd buy professional tools, as a professional programmer I have no problem buying professional tools and I'm paid enough to afford them.

[@dannyblozrov1142]

I'm quite certain that Pycharm specifically has a community edition that is free, most of their other products don't have it though(Looking at you Clion)

[@HadToChangeMyName_YoutubeSucks]

@@dannyblozrov1142 -- They do.

[@Leonardo-G]

@@HadToChangeMyName_KZbinSucks Only Pycharm and IntelliJ have community editions as far as I'm aware. But I'll definitely be taking advantage of my university email to get CLion when I start in the fall.

[@HadToChangeMyName_YoutubeSucks]

@@Leonardo-G -- I believe you're correct. Definitely take advantage of the education freebie, it's good that they do that. Good luck with your future as a code puncher.

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

0:52 I used punched cards in a University summer job. The keypunch was a think an IBM 129 unit -- it actually had a memory for storing the contents of a card. You keyed it all in (you couldn’t actually see the characters you were keying, just a column count), then pressed the Punch key to actually punch the card, and if there was a mistake, you just advanced to the column where the error was, fixed that, and punched a new card from the updated memory.

[@fazeolahbakery1188]

Kudos man. You kept it very simple and helped make the first steps in soft soft. Very Helpfull! Thanks!

[@moralfuxery]

If your going to school or learning CompSci, InfoSec, or just programming in general. This channel is a MUST

[@icicles0]

Please make more “i tried” videos!

[@nishantsingh4929]

Replying here so that this becomes top comment

[@cresent6568]

Bruh

[@Iamafuckingmadlad]

"I tried socializing with others" - programmer edition

[@TopBagon]

You haven't even "tried" the video yet

[@amber1862]

I tried 10 ways of approaching I tried videos

[@akrosi8650]

I think KDE's text editor Kate deserves more attention. It was just a notepad clone with syntax highlighting a few years ago, but now it has code completion, function information on mouseover, error checking with compilers, integration with git, LSP support, and embedded versions of KDE's terminal and file manager. It's also very lightweight still.

[@gokudomatic]

Kate and Geany both deserve more love. They're like the linux version of notepad++.

[@scheurkanaal]

@@gokudomatic Does Geany do things like LSP support (or other 'smart autocomplete' even)? I believe it didn't. Kate is relatively featureful. I guess Geany is closer to N++, while Kate is in some kind of middle ground between VSCode and N++. But yeah, I've been using Kate a lot lately since I switched to KDE, and it's quite nice, although some things can be confusing too. For example, in VSCode you open a folder as a project and session both at once. In Kate these are separate concepts.

[@hand-eye4517]

AND its open source without spyware!

[@SatanIsTheLord]

Also where is: Eclipse, KDevelop, QtCreator, Borland Builder (which in it's time was God of IDEs), RAD Studio (which is novadays God of IDE's). I got feeling that this video was created by m$crap grown halfmoron, with head deep inside his own ass.

[@andersjackson4014]

Basicly KDE version of GNOME gedit. Which is basicly a version of notepad++.exe (Yes, there are also an open source version named notepadpp).

[@FellnerB]

I tried a lot of this. Atom, Notepad, Netbeans, VisualStudio Code and more, but my absolute favorite is jetbeans with the material ui theme. Nice, very clear, fast and very user friendly

[@diogenes_of_sinope]

Awesome content delivery! It was both informative and entertaining, you got talent, thank you!

[@robswc]

I’ve had to use almost all these over the years but JetBrains has always been my go to for starting any new projects. Haven’t found anything that can come close to its refactoring and auto imports.

[@kenmken]

Yup, been using netbeans ides for a couple years at this point and I still discover amazing extremely useful and powerful features every now and then

[@robswc]

@Ken haha, yea, I wish I knew how to use all the features! Find new stuff everyday!

[@michaelkirk4173]

Jetbrains is soooo slow. Even on beefy computers. Reindexing.... reindexing....

[@wailfulchunk7108]

@@michaelkirk4173 well thats what makes it fast

[@ioneocla6577]

@@michaelkirk4173 compared to what ? VSCode ? That's pretty unfair. Jetbrains has much much more features then vscode. If you want a fair comparaison, do it with visual studio and you will understand how light jetbrains is with all of it's features.

[@ewhac]

4:38: Allow me to contribute a second datapoint here: Vimscript sucks. Integrating Lua into Neovim was a good move. Neovim also recently integrated LSP support, so you can get a very IDE-like experience.

[@hectorcanizales5900]

Vim itself also has LSP support, provided you have the snake lang.

[@evan_game_dev]

Never used Vimscript but I will take your word for it. As far as Lua, I have one word to describe it. Garbage. The editor I use uses a combination of C++ for more hardcore things and it's own language for smaller things like project configuration. It also has really nice support for integrating batch files. The best part is is that the mouse is completely optional, meaning that you can actually be fast (using a mouse for code editing is just dumb if you ask me, very slow).

[@OveRaDaMaNt]

@@evan_game_dev 4coder?

[@heroe1486]

Lsp support was already here with coc.nvim for both vim and neovim

[@evan_game_dev]

@@OveRaDaMaNt yeah, have you used it? Or did you see my other comment lol

[@robbybobbyhobbies]

Quasi-retired 53 year old programmer - I've used, as in written something worthwhile/profitable with, every editor on this list (except the Android one, ugh). Currently use Neovim for my hobby programming in Elixir, Python and SQL. I really enjoyed IntelliJ when a work project forced me to use Java. VSCode was fun and extensible, but a desire to simplify has brought me back to Neovim/LSP/Mason and it feels like home after all these years.

[@saraysofiaaventuraxxs2766]

BROOO thankyou so much, this really helped and the tutorial was really easy to use as well :)

[@PlGGS]

5:52 Thank you, I will absolutely be describing notepad++ as "Microsoft Excel for writing code" from now on

[@Onrirtopia]

I swear you never make a bad video. Amazing as always. I use vim, btw. edit: yes, i still can't exist

[@AlexCouch65]

I use Arch btw

[@nul1]

Yesterday I built my Linux From Scratch for the 10th time, BTW.

[@conradmbugua9098]

I use note pad btw

[@robertpietraru1939]

I use punch cards btw

[@cassianofranco3082]

I use Word by the way, i can customize my syntax highlight while coding 😎😎

[@k_6s287]

Best soft soft tutorial for beginners on KZbin! I'm an absolute beginner and all the other tutorials I've found on KZbin have been so

[@Usman._]

I’m in love with this channel. Specially the humour 😂😂🤭 funny guy who makes the computer science videos fun and not boring like others. Thanks for making our day!

[@eatfruitsalad345]

being able to switch code editors situationally is pretty useful. personally I use sublime to look at long files that would take some time to load on vscode, vscode for editing text (their multi-line editing shortcuts are quite refined) or for personal projects, visual studio for work-related stuff. vim when I just need to edit something real quick in command-line.

[@encycl07pedia-]

I don't think that's a good idea. Just stick with one. Why would you complicate your workflow by using Sublime, VSCode, Visual Studio, and Vim? They all have different options, configs, ways of doing things. I don't get it unless you're in a situation where your workplace forces you to use a specific editor... but even then that should be 2 total.

[@DaddyFrosty]

@@encycl07pedia- you don’t understand it until you have to open a multi gigabyte SQL Export

[@rjtimmerman2861]

@@encycl07pedia- Because I don't want a text editor when I need a full IDE and don't want a full IDE when I need a text editor. And no, VSCode is not the best of both worlds, I find it seriously lacking compared to Jetbrains' IDEs when working on an actual projects.

[@elm4525]

I switched a year ago from VSCode to Neovim, what an awesome experience. It's been rough to learn in the beginning, but letting the mouse aside is really nice, both for speed and for health.

[@codeultra_]

I use VSCode with Vim keybinds. Neovim (LunarVim in my case) is really nice, but overall i prefer VSCode.

[@EridanTheEnchanter]

@@codeultra_ I was doing the same thing, but I took the time to really work in Neovim exclusively and customize it. VSCode with nvim is really cool but wasn't able to do everything that I can do with nvim. Plus nvim is faster and lighter. I got a new work laptop and didn't even bother to install VSCode. That said, VSCode + nvim + plugins + mapping keys to call VSCode commands is really powerful, gets you 90% of the way there, but keeps the comfortable and familiar interface.

[@Abdessamad889.]

@@EridanTheEnchanter i dont know, for me VSC is a big deal when debuging & programming, it really make you feel the code.

[@hand-eye4517]

@@codeultra_ vscode is spyware . some people prefer not to use spyware...

[@exnihilonihilfit6316]

@@hand-eye4517 Weirdo... Inform yourself more.

[@lightyagami1752]

0:42 Programming in the old days was hard work, but being able to give the finger to unborn future generations made it all worthwhile.

[@theZ3r0CooL]

The first IDE I enjoyed was android studio. So jetbrains is always my go to. For the past year, webstorm has been the most used application on my machine more than 10 fold anything else. Just about every setting, plugin, theme and config that makes sense for the workspace is cross compatible with jetbrains ides as well.. even bare bones eclipse can export and import preferences such as themes. So a lot of my configuration is finished and feels familiar when using a new jetbrains ide for the first time.

[@GrantIsCooool]

3:20 WAIT THATS NOT A JOKE IT ACTUALLY HAPPENS LOL

[@knockedgoose4206]

That little moth banging away at those drums has my heart

[@MarcCastellsBallesta]

Thank you and thanks Michael. Solid advice from both of you.

[@localblackman3010]

Thanks dude this really helped me a lot I did the steps that's you did thanks man!

[@grzegorzniedzielski6885]

If you would install 40+ VSCode extensions, then rework them all to be more reliable and seamlessly work together with optimized UI you would get JetBrains IDE. Does everyone need 40+ extensions to work efficiently? No, so not everyone will benefit from jumping to JetBrains products from editor Sublime or VSCode.

[@tender.branson]

VSCode with 40+ extension is like Skyrim with 40+ mods. WebStorm makes sure that all its features work stable together, and probably are integrated between each other.

[@laundmo]

I really can't wait for setting/extension profiles so i can disable the crap I don't need per project - then extensions become truly an advantage since yknow, i can actually easily disable ones I don't need.

[@grzegorzniedzielski6885]

@@laundmo But why turn them off? Are they that intrusive? When I'm working in PHPStorm I have all the tools I need built-in into the IDE (and some plugins too), most settings are saved on per project basis so if one project is Laravel run on Vagrant and the other is Symfony app with Codeception testing suite i just have each configured differently and have all tools ready, no need to juggle extensions or plugins just setup settings for the project if defaults are not ideal.

[@arden6725]

and yet somehow the jetbrains ide will still take twice as long to launch and be more cluttered than literal random 3rd party software

[@grzegorzniedzielski6885]

@@arden6725 How often do you open and close a project daily that "twice as long" is a deal breaker? If I want to edit or view some random file quickly I use Sublime or VSCode, when I launch an IDE I'll spend several minutes to hours on a single project, and startup time something I don't even notice.

[@lmtr0]

Emacs is not a terminal app, you should use the GUI version, emacs doom is also a cool thing

[@healord51]

doom emacs saved my family

[@osbourn5772]

You could run it in a terminal but that foregoes the ability to display images and pdf documents and switch font sizes in different files

[@alanmauriciocarrascoperez2188]

something inside of me broke when I saw emacs on the terminal

[@Jebusankel]

I've tried but the backwards mouse pointer and weird select and copy and paste behavior drove me nuts.

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

Emacs isn’t just a text editor, it is an _editor_ . I have successfully used it to patch binary files.

[@FischNeo]

Fantastic tutorial, keep up the great videos!

[@TooCulturedSaiful]

Thank you so much Sensei! You are a blessing!

[@abdellatifdev3218]

I can’t believe he skipped the important parts of neovim such as built in lsp, treesitter integration, and more

[@hectorcanizales5900]

I was also expecting him to talk about emacs eVil Mode

[@thedebuggerofnothing3138]

Hell yes i am crying

[@abdellatifdev3218]

@@hectorcanizales5900 it’s seems haven’t heard of them

[@natesimonsen8716]

kinda makes sense neovim is a beast to try to get into for the first time

[@c1dk1n]

How much time ya got for a video? I use Emacs, and definitely don't have time for all the Emacs he missed.

[@user-cu6yh7po2f]

"IDEs can be awesome when you committed to a specifig platform" - nice phrase I say they same justifing my vim use for university where I'm writing on couple PL during semester

[@blaabloiuahsoas9041]

Dude I love you, never stop posting 🧡

[@liwinroy9779]

Woah, great video mate!

[@kristun216]

Microsoft's push for LSP has made all refactoring and smart tools available on every editor that supports it. My neovim config works much much better than having to open up a PHPStorm for every project.

[@ioneocla6577]

For many LSP is the god, but in my opinion, the jetbrains code processing engine is still miles ahead in terms of auto completion or refactoring.

[@trannusaran6164]

ditto for emacs company via lsp-mode ;3

[@wliaputs]

@@ioneocla6577 in what way?

[@aravindpallippara1577]

@@wliaputs lsps usually don't help with intellij style of refactoring

[@Adirelle]

@@ioneocla6577 I second that. There are still no LSP for PHP as good as Jetbrains' autocompletion engine.

[@fluffycritter]

A thing that's often missed in the history of Nano is that it's a F/OSS clone of Pico, which started life as the Pine Composer, the editor embedded in the Pine email client.

[@paulunga]

Never heard of Pine Composer, Pine or the acronym F/OSS. Thankfully I'm a software developer and know how to use google to skim the most relevant information at the time. I'm sure the skimming will come back to bite me in the ass at some point in the future.

[@RobinCernyMitSuffix]

@@paulunga yeah... I've never read F/OSS, it's usually abbreviated as "FLOSS" --> Free/Libre Open Source Software

[@ximpaktoz703]

Thank you for explaining this thoroughly!

[@ahmedhafez8698]

BROTHER, YOU ARE THE BEST!!! You oooh really helped me!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

[@nrg753]

My favorite terminal editor is *micro*, I use it on Windows and Linux and it feels like a desktop editor with all the normal shortcuts and mouse support. For desktop, well VSCode of course. Also the guy who developed nano is a Patreon for a tonne of different channels I watch!

[@adham-omran]

You don't need to use Emacs in the terminal. The GUI is clean and simple and with frameworks such as Doom it's easier than ever to jump in and start working. This was not the best showing for Emacs.

[@malcolmkahora5318]

Facts no one uses emacs in the terminal anymore if your are your losing out on so so much

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

Emacs doesn’t just have a GUI, it also provides a GUI toolkit you can access from Elisp code. Think of how the menus, status line, windowing etc are implemented -- yup, all in Elisp.

[@aravindpallippara1577]

In the same vein neovim has a graphically accelerated version with smooth scroll and cursor trails calle d neovide No full on graphical extension support however

[@akshitkumar9402]

this guy doesn't know how to emacs

[@notusingmyrealnamegoogle6232]

If it makes you feel any better I think neovim also got the short end of the stick by him not mentioning that they are doing a lot with LSP, treesitter, etc. And it has access to vscode extensions through CoC

[@Soularia-Sevine]

Visual Studio code is my absolute favorite. Pretty much covers anything you need.

[@CartoonzTV1]

It´s working great. Thank you so much for sharing the information

[@chris-hayes]

6:28 "And if you're paying for DreamWeaver in 2022..." "Stop it, and get some help" 🤣 He's right though

[@zedovski]

Should try some of the Vi offshoots with advanced configs such as Neovim (Try LunarVim config). Really enjoyable environment with support for fuzzy search, linting and code completion

[@AmirHosseinHonardust]

I atrongely suggest people start with the video series that maker of lunarvim did, which teaches you to build the environment yourself. You will feel comfortable making it anyways you want.

[@whannabi]

@@bence3776 sounds imposing

[@JThompson_VI]

This Been using LVim for a couple months now. Love it, havent touched a config file since I started using it

[@spencernaugler792]

Checkout Helix it is written in rust. In my opinion it is what vim should be

[@sabitrap]

Yo have you configured the debugger in lvim? If yes please link me up with some dot files.

[@timgromeyer2061]

I use QtCreator. Pretty lightweight and powerful. Especially the build in tools like clang-format, clang-tidy, clazy, cppcheck, gdb, vallgrind, callgrind, perf, git integration(i like the diff view), automatically refactoring, etc

[@TheBreezus]

Good video and definitely an interesting way of using the jordan meme.

[@PixelOutlaw]

Emacs is more of a Lisp based operating system. And before anyone says anything, the editor part is VERY good.

[@ahmdm2036]

The amount of research and work put into these videos is amazing. Keep up the wonderful work man!

[@rufuspub]

Over a decade ago, I came across this doctor that had written his own document scanning app in notepad++ and was using notepad++ as the middleware. I had never seen someone MacGyver a text editor like that before.

[@Alcinos]

Probably one of the best video yet from this man. Perfectly balanced in memes & useful information.

[@CodingWithLewis]

Really interested in Fleet when it comes out.

[@anciao_dev]

I hope it comes to be free.

[@krassebewegtbilder]

I hope they make it open source

[@JoshuaMcFarland]

I hope they come to my house and install it on my computer for me

[@mohamadybr]

I hope they stop it and get some help.

[@delphicdescant]

I hope it runs in emacs

[@SmileThePlanet]

wow, what a great video! its informative and funny and has michal jordan in it! this must be what youtube was made for.. keep up the great work - liked and subscribed

[@homeopathicfossil-fuels4789]

I use Notepad++ and MSYS2 for all of my languages I work in, I even write design documents in it. I like pieced together dev environments like that.

[@jaysonbunnell8097]

This was a great vid! I’m going to honorarily shout out Micro, which is not yet a mature text editor but sits in the right-middle of vim-nano. It’s non-modal, has mouse support, and uses lua for plugins (but with golang bindings, which is difficult) with easy-to-write syntax highlighting files. I’d love a switch to tree-walk highlighters like atom(rip) was starting implement, but it’s genuinely a good program and I use it daily. Maybe I’ll learn neovim someday, but I’ll get so used to my changes I’ll have a hard time with it on someone else’s machine.

[@Thiagola92]

I has going to comment about Micro too! I have a feeling that is a text editor close to new ones, you don't feel like you have to learn new key bindings

[@WolfPhoenix0]

JetBrains IDEs are easily THE best IDE tools. I've been using them for years in work and have always been satisfied. Interestingly enough, I've never used their refactoring feature though.

[@aaronroach837]

I use both Rider and WebStorm. Their refactoring tools are easily my favorite features. Some of the operations you can do feel like magic.

[@danielschmider5069]

Shift F6 my man, its excellent

[@Thamizhmanikandan]

It worked perfectly!!! Thank you so much

[@thamizhansurya8519]

I've learned to use vim about 2 years ago and I can't get out of it. The amount of control and speed I get with vim is that much good.

[@ashortrant]

0:03 bug was used before "hopper"(Shakespeare in genera use it), that is why was so hilarious, and also hopper didn't find the bug was other developer of the team.

[@healord51]

Man I really love Doom emacs, the perfect son from vim+emacs.

[@CordellLawrence]

dude... I'm like 12 seconds in and already dying here! --- a moth playing the bongo drums? lmao - and setting the darn servers on fire. Well done... very well done.

[@kimse750]

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPER HELPFUL man!! Thank you

[@marcusunivers]

I hope someday VSCode switches from Electron to Tauri to make it way more lightweight. I know this probably never happened but let me dream 😅

[@RonnieNissan]

Emacs rocks. Also, emacs is a GUI first software.

[@rutabega306]

Did you mean vi?

[@mauricenr2969]

@@rutabega306 Google here - Did you mean emacs?

[@anokiyoussou]

@@mauricenr2969 Google here - Did you mean vi?

[@hanzagustin3990]

You are dope bro! Damn , thank you so much, subbed

[@bytehead904]

What no Ultraedit32? 😛 Also, Nano was out before 1999, but probably still the 90s. When I had access to an ISP during those '90s, I regularly ran Nano to edit text files on my shell account. Then again, I was using edlin to edit my BASIC source code, found a copy of WordStar (when I switched from TRS land to IBM compatibles) and used that until I broke down and got Norton's Editor. Which was an improvement. I also tried eel, an emacs work alike. Fun stuff all the way back then. Today, I have a lifetime subscription to IDMs UltraEdit. And so I use that. It was cheaper than buying the upgrade for three years... I've got VS Code installed. I probably had vi at some point, but that was 16-bit code, and it no longer works on 64-bit Windows. There's probably (another) port for now as well. If I don't want to go through WSL. I'm retired now, so I don't really need much more than the usual text editing, and I've been using UE for decades at this point, so it's not like I have to relearn something when I'm just trying to fix a text file.

[@TheEquilibrium47]

In emacs you can setup email client, play games, do anything you want to do

[@levyroth]

Anything except be cool 😎

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

Including instil feelings of inadequacy in the Emacs-envious.

[@mitkobomba]

"Things like undo, find and replace, cut copy and paste are all common place" That was smooth

[@kenken-sm9sc]

HOLYY SHIITTT I LOVE YOU ❤❤❤ I'VE BEEN SEARCHING AROUND THE INTERNET FOR 5 HOURS AND THEN NOW IT'S OVER FINALLY I LOVE YOU MAAN

[@Myrkvi_]

Kakoune, while niche, is also worth a mention. Its user experience is very similar to that of Vi(m), though its modal mode is selection→command rather than Vi(m)'s command→selection. Behind the scenes it works very differently, especially with how plugins/extensions interact with it. Micro is also a neat terminal editor, providing shortcut keys familiar to those in GUI editors, and isn't a modal editor.

[@linuxramblingproductions8554]

Yeah kakounes really nice if I didn’t use emacs i would have probably switched from neovim to kakoune

[@ioneocla6577]

Helix is also worth mentioning. Kakoune like with built in lsp/treesitter support

[@whaisonw2865]

I love Webstorm for all its polished Plugins. The database tool is the best I have tried

[@spahgetti96]

one of the first things i install on a new system is micro. it’s fairly new, has catpuccin themes, and has modern text editor shortcuts + tabs

[@RaphaelClancy]

I'm not a programmer. I'm a hobbyist who likes programming. Every once in a while I'll need a hardware interface or want to write some code to play around with. (I'm working on realistic landscapes right now.) For me, having to learn this season's cool ide is huge waste of time. It used to really hold me back. Sure, it only takes a few days to get up to speed but, when just want to bang something out, why bother. I totally understand that, for professional programmers, having a good ide is critical. But, I'm happiest with a text editor (Kate) and gcc in a terminal.

[@crazyfrogsucker9616]

ok

[@niceytube205]

Who

[@user-fr2fm3ri3w]

Just learn vscode it’s been around since 2015

[@ChickenTandies]

Gigachad

[@WordsThroughTheSky]

great video! one minor suggestion, add time stamps for the different topics (editors), thanks :)

[@rpxdytx]

I use neovim, integrated it with rust and c/c++ and it is awesome, never going back to vscode because it is fast, simple, not electron based, foss (which means bye microsoft), and using some plugins + nerd fonts it feels beautiful. Gotta try sublime next

[@yes-vy6bn]

zed editor.

[@v01d_r34l1ty]

Yo you gotta try the Comic Code font (inspired by Comic Sans) it actually 100% seriously looks and feels really good to use. It's nuts, I thought I'd hate it.

[@FUnzzies1]

How to find vim users. They'll tell you.

[@eskomo34]

@@FUnzzies1 how to find people that don't use vim, they'll tell you

[@rpxdytx]

@@FUnzzies1 for sure

[@MikkoRantalainen]

2:40 I'd actually argue that Emacs is a modal editor but it modals are not vi-like command mode vs insert mode vs visual mode. The modal states in Emacs is key sequence prefixes. You can consider Emacs as being the insert mode most of the time and entering different command modes with key combinations like Ctrl+H. After you have pressed that combination, the editor is now in "help mode" until you get out of it. Luckily, the default mode is insert mode which seems to match human thinking better than vi-like "command mode is the default mode".

[@richtraube2241]

It has also been described as chordal since you have to use many 3 key combos, with the result that you spend a lot of time off home row. I ended up using vi-mode and thought why bother. Currently using nvim.

[@AndersJackson]

@@richtraube2241 vi key bindings and modes is because that is the only way to make a text based UI with ed(1) in it. Emacs used the modern terminals, which had Ctrl-keys which could be used to enter many more key combinations then just "a" and "A" (Shift A). Now you had "Ctrl-A" ("C-a" with Ctrl A key chords), which then modern programs used, that wasn't a wrapper around a line based editor.

[@Alexis-hj6ci]

​​@@richtraube2241 But Emacs has by default a lot of things that Vim doesn't had, for example Emacs has an GUI, so you don't need install anything special if you want to use in Windows, or also in Linux, you had access to special symbols and other pretty features that doesn't work in none terminal. Also Emacs can work as daemon, that means that you can have a lot of IDE features without timeouts when you open the editor, because the editor is always open and only make new windows. Emacs can contain also an integrated terminal, has a very good windows and directory manager, so you don't need to think how integrated that functions in the editor, you can only install the specific features for your language. Also, some of the Emacs bindings already work so fine, that I use some of that instead their Evil variant.

[@richtraube2241]

@@Alexis-hj6ci Thanks. I'll stick with nvim and tmux.

[@morningmusic988]

Worked , thanks a lot!

[@obsey]

This video does a great job of combining being informative with being hilarious at the same time. I already knew about these editors except for the upcoming new JetBrains products, and watched it primarily find out if it discussed editors I did not know about.

[@chrzan9608]

Emacs may take a substantial amount of time to configure, but once you have it configured to your liking there's just nothing out there that feels so empowering. That is just how I felt/feel about it.

[@vaisakhkm783]

Neovim may take a substantial amount of time to configure, but once you have it configured to your liking there's just nothing out there that feels so empowering. That is just how i felt/ feel about it.

[@lakrinmex8132]

you still need to be pressing ctrl almost all the time

[@lakrinmex8132]

@@vaisakhkm783 you still have modes.

[@jeremy7556]

@@lakrinmex8132 there're many alternatives. evil mode, god mode etc. customize it how you want

[@chrzan9608]

@@lakrinmex8132 you can always use evil-mode, I got converted to it and there's no going back, ever. But frankly you can make make Emacs do whatever the hell you want it to do, there are very few limitations, if any.

[@official_mosfet]

Sometimes, i stop and think something like "VS Code has that many features, and i don't use a third of then".

[@chiranthurs7610]

I am your fan bro whenever I finish a task i watch your video that brings smile on my face i am proud to follow your channel

[@Aviation667]

Hey fun fact, emacs has a mode called "evil mode" it changes emacs keybindings to vi keybindings and there is nothing else to say

[@vivekbooshan9954]

You should try out helix, it has been such a lovely editor to work with. It’s like the best of nvim and kakoune put together and then some. It’s so easy to set up LSPs and customizations. It uses selection -> action ordered commands and has a really nice default configuration.

[@danshusharma7450]

Am a happy neovim user for now but helix def has my attention. I have a feeling it’ll replace neovim for me once it’s more mature

[@maxime2949]

I was about to post the same comment ! It comes with all the "only IDEs do this" features thanks to LSP support. It's only really missing github and/or plugins

[@brhh]

@@danshusharma7450 as a previous neovim user, you should try to compare helix with doom emacs (emacs with vim shortcus, does everything neovim does and more) and go with one of them

[@cheems1337]

I tried it out, it's great but it has its issues and doesn't have as many features as vim

[@drsensor]

I've been using helix "full time" and eager to see when DAP (debug adapter protocol) and window resizing landed. Previously I'm neovim user with minimal config. VSCode still exist on my machine but only used when styling web or mobile apps.

[@elektrolyte]

Hilarious edit!! well done

[@Semmelein]

Happy to pay for IntelliJ and all of their software. It does everything I need well and integrated. Love it! ❤

[@anciao_dev]

I just stick to Sublime Text and vscode and I'm happy with it.

[@BjornBidar]

Emacs is more like VSCode but with Lisp instead of Java-Script. Emacs also can use Vim-Keybinds. I heard from many users that they moved from Vim to Emacs because of Emacs ability to extend itself. Emacs can use Emacs-Lisp for extensions that can be compiled and native modules written in any language to be extended.

[@tie2tight]

VS code also has vim keybind extensions, how i learned vim

[@wladimir765]

This is great, thank you!

[@W6lkietalkieaeps]

ITS REALLY WORKED LOL THANK YOU DUDE

[@damirdukic]

You forgot to mention an important feature of Vim which (among others) makes it easier to use than "vi": the possibility to visually mark the text blocks with the commands "v", "V" and "Ctrl-V". As for the Vimscript, the version 9 of Vim introduced an additional alternative scripting language.

[@RedMoon814]

I'm just starting to learn programming and for now I'm VSCode all the way I tried Notepad++ (but the UI was unnapealing for me) and plain notepad (i had a bug and was desperate) Sublime text looked slick too but for some reason I couldn't install it or something Also my pc is on the medium range and I've only coded very basic things, so I haven't experienced lag or any disadvantages of VSCode