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Visual Studio Code Landing Page
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Visual Studio Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
Pricing:
- Open Source
Careful, this is how it starts ;-) I was a very heavy Emacs user for a long time using it for mail, as a Twitter client etc. At one point I started using VS Code on the side for JS, but made the full switch sometime last year. There are some things I miss (org-mode 😭), but the monthly VS Code releases do bridge the gap fast and overall it's a great editor for web developers.

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RubyMine Landing Page

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RubyMine

Cross-platform IDE for productive Ruby & Rails development.

I have spent the most time in VS Code right now, but I keep on finding features that I am yearning for. Like local code history, code templates, different views… I have been trying out RubyMine for the better part of a week, and it almost feels like too much going on. I haven’t gotten a good hold on customizing it, and for some reason when I try the hot keys, they never seem to work. I know I could change up the short-cuts, but that almost seems like cheating to me, it really isn’t learning the new IDE way of doing something but attempting it to be like something it isn’t.

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GNU Emacs Landing Page
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GNU Emacs

GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Careful, this is how it starts ;-) I was a very heavy Emacs user for a long time using it for mail, as a Twitter client etc. At one point I started using VS Code on the side for JS, but made the full switch sometime last year. There are some things I miss (org-mode 😭), but the monthly VS Code releases do bridge the gap fast and overall it's a great editor for web developers.

#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 6 social mentions
Vim Landing Page
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Vim

Highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing
Pricing:
- Open Source
The lead developer I have been pairing with this week is an emacs wizard. He makes it look effortless and insanely useful. I think I might have to give that a go, but if it is anything like Vim I know the learning curve will be steep. If I remember how to exit properly in Vim, it feels like a win. At home on my windows machine I’m just using powershell for a terminal and Atom for a editor. It’s super simple, and works great for the small coding exercises that I am doing, but would not work in an enterprise level application.

#Text Editors #Software Development #IDE 10 social mentions
Atom Landing Page

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Atom

At GitHub, we’re building the text editor we’ve always wanted: hackable to the core, but approachable on the first day without ever touching a config file. We can’t wait to see what you build with it.

The lead developer I have been pairing with this week is an emacs wizard. He makes it look effortless and insanely useful. I think I might have to give that a go, but if it is anything like Vim I know the learning curve will be steep. If I remember how to exit properly in Vim, it feels like a win. At home on my windows machine I’m just using powershell for a terminal and Atom for a editor. It’s super simple, and works great for the small coding exercises that I am doing, but would not work in an enterprise level application.

#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 152 social mentions