I think i read that it uses an old version of electron or something? Do i recall correctly?
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I know several world class programmers, and interestingly, the commonality among them is that they all seem to use Vim as their code editor. Many people I know who think of themselves as world class programmers use Emacs.
What a burn!
More like a personal bias in the form of a distasteful snark that the author thinks is funny. Their demonstrated knowledge about Emacs in the article indicates the worth of such remarks.
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The best code editor is the one that works well with your other tools, including your compiler and your keyboard.
Corollary: If you use an unusual compiler or an unusual keyboard, this may change what the best editor for you is.
The best code editor is the one that you enjoy using, because you're going to be using it a lot.
I agree with this. In my opinion helix is the best code editor.
@LucidDaemon @Aurenkin out of curiosity, how long have you been using Helix and what do you like about it? I tried it awhile back and liked it, but it wasn't able to break VS Code's iron grip on my dev workflow.
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The key to being productive as a programmer is to have a great code editor
True true.
The best code editor came from GitHub
I'm out.
Zed https://zed.dev/
That can only run on mac. Hard pass.
It's open source though and they plan on adding Linux/Windows support in the future
They're working on Linux compatibility. It's not ready yet but it's well along the way with about half the necessary tasks completed. Windows will be after that.
It looks like it'll be really nice when it comes out for the other platforms though, and they do plan on doing that eventually.
It's probably a good thing to get it right on one platform first before getting into the other ones. If they release it buggy on Linux it'll leave a bad taste.
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Pulsar is a fork of Atom, which was discontinued because almost everyone jumped ship to VSCode.
What does Pulsar do that is better than VSCode? All the features this article highlights are in VSCode too, and I can think of a bunch of features that Pulsar doesn't have (dev containers are a big one for me - they allow you to have different versions of the same software installed, depending what project you're working on right now... and you can work on/run both versions of the same software at the same time, on the same hardware... you can also emulate other CPU architectures in a dev container, some of the software I work with every day can't actually run natively on my hardware).
The author also makes some incorrect or misleading claims, specifically about emacs. I acknowledge there's a high bar for entry there and don't personally like emacs, but it's not modal, and it does have the ability to display images and markdown previews.
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