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Discussion on: What Alternative Text Editors Does DEV Use? (Not VS Code 🐱‍👓)

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Shannon Crabill

I use Atom. Before that, in a pinch, I would use Sublime text.

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

I'm a fan of Atom. It was my first editor until VS Code came out. I switched because of performance reasons, but now I've had a nagging feeling of switching back to Atom because VS Code's Ruby support is pretty meh.

These are always tough decisions for me 😣

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

I was an Atom user for a few weeks! Then I started using Sublime because the rest of my team was using it. It's a decent editor, for sure.

Do you use any cool extensions?

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Shannon Crabill

A few.

If you write a lot of Ruby erb herlp is handy. I also use atom-html-preview and an IDE terminal.

Overall, I have not done a lot of customizations, but Atom has worked for me.