The latest articles on DEV Community by James King (@bassforce86). https://dev.to/bassforce86 https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F167979%2Feae40a06-88e1-4a1b-a48c-d51afb63ae8f.jpg https://dev.to/bassforce86 en James King Fri, 13 May 2022 07:45:24 +0000 https://dev.to/bassforce86/what-do-you-look-for-in-a-code-editor-516b https://dev.to/bassforce86/what-do-you-look-for-in-a-code-editor-516b <p>I find myself often searching for better editor experiences when writing code.</p> <p>Things I've tried:</p> <ul> <li> <code>Visual Studio code</code>: too slow, resource hog.</li> <li> <code>Atom</code>: same as above.</li> <li> <code>Intellij</code>: <em>very</em> slow to open.</li> <li> <code>NeoVim/Vim</code>: steep learning curve and requires a good memory (human, not computer!).</li> <li> <code>Lite (and Lite-xl)</code>: lacking fully-featured language support currently.</li> <li> <code>Sublime Text</code>: Has probably come the closest to my reliable editor, but actually getting it setup to be an editor can be fiddly, because it's primarily supposed to be a text editor.</li> </ul> <p>Things I need:</p> <ul> <li>Speed - my biggest frustration</li> <li>cross-platform</li> <li>LSP integrations (specifically gopls and pylsp)</li> <li>debug support (delve, pdb)</li> <li>Large extension library / list of plugins</li> </ul> <p>Things I want:</p> <ul> <li>Nice Testing &amp; coverage visualisations</li> <li>Kubernetes &amp; docker support</li> <li>hackability / customisation</li> </ul> <p>This got me thinking, with modern LSPs (Language Server Protocols) and rich web-based ecosystems - what do you look for in an editor?</p> discuss productivity performance motivation