Kristian Quirapas

Posted on Mar 26, 2022

What's your editor journey like as a developer?

#discuss #career #programming

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

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.

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

Latest comments (35)

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