I used to use TextMate, but switched to Sublime Text when they stopped supporting TextMate 1 (many years ago), and have gotten really fast with Sublime.
Recently though I've played around with VS Code and really like it (because of how customizable it is), but I still find myself opening Sublime more.
So: without starting any editor "wars", I was just curious: what is your favorite editor right now and why?
If you'd like to give more context, I'd also love to know: What is your favorite plugin/extension for that editor?
For Sublime, one fun one is "Emoji" (so you can insert emojis with just a few keystrokes): https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Emoji
And for VS Code, an underrated one I think is "Custom CSS", which lets you fully customize the VSCode experience by writing custom css: https://github.com/be5invis/vscode-custom-css
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Personally, I prefer using PyCharm and WebStorm IDE by Jetbrains as my go-to code editor. I find it offers a more efficient and user-friendly experience.
While I understand the appeal of VsCode being a free, versatile option, I've found its intellisense to be lacking and overall it feels bloated to me.
I don't get why people leave TextMate. Still my favorite editor. Yes I dabble in Sublime, Atom, VSCode, Vim and Kakoune, but I always go back to TextMate. Yes there are some annoyances with TextMate, but I cannot find anybody else which has such a nice Bundle plugin system. It is not just that Bundles are easy to make and edit, but I love how their functionality is so well sectioned off and easy to discover. Like you have a menu entry for each language. I cannot see that for other editors.
Sublime just has way too little UI. Everything seems to be text configuration files. TextMate makes it a lot easier to discover functionality. Especially related to configuring bundles.
If I have to use a text mode editor then I prefer Kakoune for many of the same reasons. I tend to prefer simplicity and ease of use. Editor which are based on some simple powerful principles. Kakoune takes make of the good ideas of Vim and simplifies them and make them more powerful.
Thus you get a far more manageable editor for a developer not willing to invest tons of time in being a Vim wizard.
PHPStorm on my local machine for developing projects or VSCode just for fast scripting/testing some new languages and Vi on server for editing conf files :)
Vim! been using it for 5+ years and never looked back
I am using kakoune currently. It is like a better version of vim with some features being completion and command help.
My code editor journey has been -
At first, when starting out with web development, I used Notepad mostly because I did not know about the concept of a code editor :) and Notepad was the only thing that I knew about that could edit plain text files. Then I found Notepad++ and it seemed amazing to me at the time - basic stuff like syntax highlighting and code folding and line numbers made me say "wow, this is cool". Then I saw Atom on some tutorial video online and it looked very nice with a dark theme and material design so I switched to Atom.
Atom was too slow on my computer so I decided to use Sublime Text. Sublime Text did not have a lot of plugins and a GUI settings editor so I came back to Atom. Then I discovered VSCode which was a good balance between speed and features so I switched to Sublime. I saw some article saying that vim will make me a better developer so I started using vim. I don't think vim improved my productivity, it probably reduced it.
Then I discovered Kakoune which gave me a better experience with help messages out of the box so I switched to that and thats what I am using till date.
I'm a huge fan of all things Jet Brains. Used VS Code for a little while but quickly switched back to phpStorm/Webstorm. VS Code is just way slower, and just not as good at code completion, as phpStorm is.
I work mainly with Js and php, but lately also a good deal of Golang. I've used:
Atom! It's really great and highly customizable. The Teletype add-on is great for collaboration.
Spacemacs. It's easy to set up, allows for superhuman speeds for code navigation (owing mostly to evil mode), can be used from a terminal, and easy to keep my configuration synced across multiple computers.
I love it so much I made videos about it ( youtube.com/c/jack-of-some )
Oh and the plugin Magit ... the best way to use git in my opinion.
I use Notepad++ to opening bunch of text files, editing Config files, etc.
and I use VS Code for programming and develop.
Out of curiosity what benefit do to get from notepad++ in the use cases where you're not using vs code?
Notepad++ is light-weight editor with good features, simple, stable, pluginable.
I would like to divide text files into three categories:
I use Windows Notepad for 1st category, because they don't need very effort.
I use Notepad++ for 2nd category, because they need syntax-highlighting, tabs, plugin to handle, auto-complete, line-joining, line-spliting, encoding, searching, commenting, converting case, etc.
I use VSCode for 3nd category, because they need compilation, sophisticated auto-complete, professional tabs management and grouping, advanced plugins, programming-related plugins and tools, professioal shortcuts, etc.
VS Code is the only editor I use anymore. I like InelliJ's editors, but with their premium price it just doesn't make sense. VS Code is fast, free & extremely flexible.
I LOVE VSCode. I love the built in terminal, built-in error checking, and built-in everything under the sun. My favorite plugin is probably bracket-colorizer, which color-codes matching brackets and parentheses so it's easy to see where that darn if statement actually ends.
Yep agree once I discovered it makes me wonder how I went so long without it a great plugin.
The integrated terminal is absolutely the killer features for me. Especially with ssh remoting.
I use quite a few formatters and other extensions, but the terminal is what won me over. It's fast enough that it doesn't slow me down and so nice in so many ways. I do miss the old non-tab ux though.
The fact that it works on Linux, Windows and Mac doesn't hurt either. I tend to use as much of the same told everywhere.
WebStorm is too awesome! but it requires much memory but with the debugger, indentation, and insight.
I've been a VS Code fanboy ever since I started using it. Going from brackets to sublime to atom to VS Code. I thought atom was my jam when I was using it and then on a whim I decided to try VS Code and I was really surprised that it didn't feel as bloated as atom. It came installed with almost everything you need and looks aesthetically pleasing out the box. Beyond that,it has a great plugin eco-system
I did the same used Sublime for a long time then switched to Atom that it did seem to lag and after some colleagues raved about VSCode I gave it a go and love using it. The plugins are great but I do find it a resource hog at times with the odd extensions crashes but I do use quite a few and my work laptop is showing its age.
I used mostly Sublime while my main development work was on Windows but after shifting to Ubuntu , I used Sublime for few months, then tried VS Code. I kinds started liking it. But VS Code was too heavy, it was slowing down my machine and I like fast development environments. 😊
Sublime Text has been my all time favourite. It's Lightweight and Fast ✈️