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Discussion on: Which editor/IDE do you use and why?

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Paul

I use a full IDE like Intellij for large (corporate) projects, VSCode for most of my (medium sized) projects and CodeRunner for just writing a couple of lines very quickly.

To all of you Atom lovers: have you ever tried VSCode? Why do you prefer Atom? I'm asking because I cannot think of a reason. Most Atom users I've met, have never tried VSCode before.

CodeRunner (macOS only) needs an honorable mention especially for all students out there. It integrates syntax highlighting and code completion for most languages, but it can also run them right out of the box. It's the perfect tool for small projects you want to get started with as fast as possible. VSCode and Atom often need some extentions to install and json files to setup. That's very different with CodeRunner.