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Discussion on: F*** PHPStorm Man and the high horse he rode in on

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Bruno Paz • Edited

If you use PHPStorm and enjoy it, then fine, rock on. If you use a different editor or IDE, then that’s fine too.

I couldn't agree more with this and can be applied to many more situations like programming language choices and so on.

People evangelizing technologies and tools and bashing others solely based on their choices is stupid and has to stop.

I have seen that superiority behavior a lot by some die-hard VIM users, bashing IDE users too, so we could also talk about the "VIM man". ;)

I use mostly VSCode for frontend work and smaller projects but for bigger projects, I prefer to use an IDE like PHPStorm or Goland. Things like autocomplete and refactoring tools are so much more polished on these.

Language servers are cool and I think they will be the future, but IMO still have a long way to go. The Golang language server, for example, randomly stops working for me on VSCode. I need a stable development environment!

But that´s my preference based on my context and experience.

Code editors are a very personal choice. Expert vim users can be much more productive than the average IDE user and the other way around.

Whatever editor you choose, just make sure you know it really well and you will be fine.