Kristian Quirapas

Posted on Mar 26, 2022

What's your editor journey like as a developer?

#discuss #programming #career

I stumbled upon this amusing thread on twitter where people were discussing different editors.

Bruce 💫

@infinidream1

Is there any code editor better than VScode?

08:02 AM - 25 Mar 2022

Edwin

@modernfaraday

@InfiniDream1 I'm just a VScode person, sitting here waiting for the Vim army to arrive

09:21 AM - 25 Mar 2022

Kristian Quirapas

@k_quirapas

@ModernFaraday @InfiniDream1 The Vim cavalry has arrived.

01:40 AM - 26 Mar 2022

Don't get me wrong, I shared these tweets because I find them funny. It also made me look back on my developer journey and the editors I used before.

Here's my Editor journey.

Kristian Quirapas

@k_quirapas

What's your editor journey as a dev? 🔥 Here's mine 👇

Notepad -> Batch files
Python IDLE -> Scripts
Visual Basic -> GUI Apps
Code::Blocks -> C and C++
Notepad++ -> Web Development
Gedit -> assembly (nasm) and bash scripts
Vim -> Everything (coding, writing, notetaking, etc)

01:49 AM - 26 Mar 2022

I was wondering, what's your editor journey like?
Share them down below.

Latest comments (36)

Ray Caballero • Mar 29 '22

Turbo C > Notepad++ > Sublime Text 2/3 > VS Code 😁

KyleReemaN • Mar 28 '22

I don't understand why it's often Ide X vs vim I use every Ide with a vim plugin :)

Kristian Quirapas • Mar 28 '22

True. We can all just agree to choose whatever works for us 💯

official_dulin • Mar 28 '22

Sublime Text => WebStorm => Atom => VS Code

Ole Petersen • Mar 27 '22

{Eclipse, Notepad, whatever I forgot} -> VSCode
Nothing beats VSCode

eboye • Mar 27 '22

Hmm, it's a very long journey for me, but I'll try to sum it up to most important ones:

Notepad++
Adobe DreamWeaver
Adobe Flash
3ds max script editor
Eclipse
Aptana
Android Studio
Adobe Brackets
Sublime
Atom
Geany
Gedit
PHPStorm

There were A LOT in between, but these are the ones I sticked to the most.

VSCode never felt right for some reason.

Jakub T. Jankiewicz • Mar 26 '22 • Edited

My begining:

TurboPascal TUI
VisualBasic IDE
Front Page (HTML editor from M$)

When I was at college I was using:

CodeBlocks
Nodepad++ (I stoped using it about 2 years ago, when I was able to use GNU/Linux also on work laptop)
Borland C++

And since more than 15 years I use (and from 2 years on work laptop):

GNU Emacs
For quick edits GEdit and Mousepad (first on Work laptop, the second on private one), depending on Window Manager. I yet not fully use GNU Emacs as I could.
Nano for editing in terminal and over SSH

Stephanie Handsteiner • Mar 26 '22

Notepad -> Notepad++ -> Dreamweaver (back before Adobe bought Macromedia) -> Sublime Text -> (neo)vim -> PhpStorm (with vim bindings, to keep my hands on the keyboard :D)

vim is still used though, first of all it's my set editor in git to resolve conflicts and such, also I use it for quick edits in a file, and of course via ssh on servers. :D

Ikechukwu Mbakwem • Mar 26 '22

I think your editor of choice depends on the programming language. I use PyCharm whenever am developing with Python. For JS projects, i switch between VS Code and Atom. Buh VS Code mostly

Kristian Quirapas • Mar 26 '22

Love the flexibility on this one! I just find less mental overhead when I stick to one. Thanks for sharing

Mohamed • Mar 26 '22

Brackets->Sublime->VSCode;

Ben Sinclair • Mar 26 '22

Hmm.
DOS -> debug for asm, Borland C IDE
Windows: Notepad, Netbeans

--
Until I reached the age of reason and joined the cavalry.

Kristian Quirapas • Mar 26 '22

Welcome my fellow Knight! You may lead the charge!

Shrikant Dhayje • Mar 26 '22

For Me It Was VSCode Because It's Just that of Size Nearly 70 MB That Time and I Can Install It in College's Windows Computer and Library's Ubuntu Computer both easily.

Before I Thought of trying the Atom Editor but there website did not had the Build Of 64 Bit Windows to Direct Download So I gone to alternative option.

After using VSCode and Using there Variety of Plugins helped the most for web development that time.

I Also Fascinated by VSCode Because My College Syllabus had C and C++ in it and College PC had Turbo C++ Compiler and they still use it to teach that language because the book had instructions related to Turbo C and Borland C++ I think, They Still Use that Compiler.

My Advice is that if you ever use that compiler you will gonna get depressed dude.

I Support Modern Programmer Should avoid the Turbo C As Much As Possible.

Bye 👋,
Turbo C Antagonist

Kristian Quirapas • Mar 26 '22

Turbo C's a classic, but it's okay for it to stay that way.... a classic. Thanks for sharing

Dhanush N • Mar 26 '22

Turbo C >> Code Blocks >> Eclipse >> VsCode

And now only VS Code 🎉

Kristian Quirapas • Mar 26 '22 • Edited

YOOOOOO turbo c was lit.... before! I'm glad there are better editors now.

Ajinkya Borade • Mar 26 '22

Dreamweaver 🥰

Kristian Quirapas • Mar 26 '22

Those were the days

Jeremy Friesen • Mar 26 '22

I worked in the AS400 text editor and Notepad. Then moved to Jedit for a brief moment, considered Emacs (in 2006) but chose Textmate then Sublime then Atom.

In 2020 I was noticing that Atom just kept falling down. I looked into three text editors:

VSCode
Vim
Emacs

I spent time reflecting on my principles of a text editor. For a month I practiced Emacs, Vim, and VS Code.

VS Code has lots of "bling" I'm well aware of Microsoft's Embrace -> Extend -> Extinguish pattern. For that (and a few implementation reasons) I chose not to use it.

I can move through Vim but it never quite fit with my mental model.

And Emacs just clicked. First I started with Doom, and found myself overwhelmed. I then tried Spacemacs, and finally said "I'm starting from an empty config." From that position, I just started writing. And I took notes: "What did past editors do that I missed?"

I tracked down packages that did those things, and over the 2 years I've built up a text editor that helps me: plan my work, grow my personal knowledge base, code, and blog.

The following post is about a rather trivial function I wrote: