• BubblyMango@lemmy.wtf
        2·
        8 months ago

        There are multiple gui front ends, but its still very popular to use it in the terminal. Its a TUI, so it practically works like a GUI.

          • BubblyMango@lemmy.wtf
            2·
            8 months ago

            In a cli you only type commands and send them with Enter, in a TUI you can click/move around with the arrows just like in a gui.

            Edit: dont know about good front ends.

  • WatTyler@lemmy.sdf.org
    4·
    9 months ago

    Lots of replies mentioning Emacs but Emacs out of the box is gonna be essentially a text editor (insert obligatory: Emacs isn’t a text editor; it’s a LISP interpreter).

    However, install Doom Emacs, and you have a full IDE experience for essentially any language you could ask for. I highly recommend it.

      • WatTyler@lemmy.sdf.org
        1·
        9 months ago

        Following up from my previous comment, there is a Flatpak of Emacs available on Flathub. Here are the instructions for how to install, whilst enabling native compilation, which will offer a performance increase and allow you to use features such as vterm (the best terminal emulator for Emacs).

      • WatTyler@lemmy.sdf.org
        1·
        9 months ago

        I’m not too familiar with how Flatpak works but Emacs benefits from compiling it on your machine natively. Tell me what distro you’re on and I can see if I can find out how you’d do that.

      • Free Palestine 🇵🇸@sh.itjust.works
        21·
        8 months ago

        A Flatpak of Doom Emacs? No. But you can just install the normal Emacs flatpak and then install Doom Emacs with 2 simple commands:

        git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs ~/.config/emacs

        ~/.config/emacs/bin/doom install

        Emacs will read these config files from the .config/emacs directory. Doom Emacs is not a different version of the program, it’s essentially just a set of configuration files.

        • jackpot@lemmy.mlOP
          2·
          8 months ago

          it’s not working for me? sorry to ask but could you try it? linux mint lts btw

          • Free Palestine 🇵🇸@sh.itjust.works
            21·
            8 months ago

            I don’t have a Linux Mint installation right now, but when I used Mint a few months ago this worked for me. The two commands are from the official Doom Emacs install guide. Could you tell me exactly what doesn’t work?

            • jackpot@lemmy.mlOP
              2·
              8 months ago

              when i use those commands it assume emacs is installed as a system package and installs to a different location not accessible to the flatpak

  • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    Well nvim, obviously. It’s pretty much fully featured. With LSP plugins you get all the code completion, hints, type info, docs and so on. You also get typical navigation like ‘go to declaration’ and some basic refactoring. And all inside the best editor there is. I’m using it for C, JS, JSX and Rust and all works great. I honestly prefer it to IntelliJ, it loads faster and is more responsive.

    • ntzm [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
      0·
      9 months ago

      I love helix, I just wish the development was a bit faster. The main developers are all quite busy and I would love nothing more for them to be able to use some of the open collective money to pay themselves to work on it full time for a bit. I think in a year or two it will be amazing.

    • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
      0·
      9 months ago

      You can also go with Neovim, but it only runs in the terminal.

      To me, that’s a feature, not a detractor.

      ETA: Not intending to imply that Emacs isn’t also a fine choice. I just like the terminal.

      • Free Palestine 🇵🇸@sh.itjust.works
        01·
        9 months ago

        I really like Neovim and I’ve been using it for over 2 years as my main IDE, but recently I started getting into Emacs. I like the Terminal as much as you do, but I just wanted to try out something new, so I went with Emacs. I’ve been using it for some time now, and I’m probably not going back, I’m very happy with it.

  • Another Catgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    1·
    9 months ago

    My favorite is Kate because it’s less of an IDE and more of a text editor with side panes for the project tree and a terminal to run the program. Easy enough to set up a hot key to save-build-run. I think that’s all I need?

    • Nyanix@lemmy.ca
      1·
      9 months ago

      Right there with you, I’m on the admin side of things, so the time it takes the app to start is a bigger deal to me than the full featured-ness of VS Codium, but provides contextual highlighting and some quality-of-life coding features that you won’t find it text editors.

  • Joker@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    VSCodium, emacs, vim/neovim, helix.

    Helix is pretty slick, but it’s not very extensible. Very easy to use and if the out of the box features are good enough for you then it’s a fine IDE.

    Neovim is my preference unless I’m working with Jupyter notebooks, in which case I switch to vscodium. It’s a pain in the ass to set up. I took the easy way out with LazyVim. It’s fast to work with and I can use it for almost everything.

    I dabbled with emacs many years ago. It’s like vim but completely different. You can make it do anything. Personally, I don’t care for the keyboard shortcuts. It’s probably easier to pick up than vim, but all the key chords and sequences are too much for me. In any case, anyone willing to look at vim should also take a look at emacs.

    VSCodium is accessible and extensible. You can’t go wrong with this one. It can’t refactor like the Jetbrains stuff, but if there’s anything else it can’t do then I don’t know what it is. It’s a great IDE.

    Really, any of these can do just about any job and do it very well. There’s no choice that clearly stands above the others. It really comes down to personal preference.

  • Link@lemy.lol
    0·
    9 months ago

    How about VSCodium? I don’t think I should explain why VS Code is best editor.

    • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
      1·
      9 months ago

      You might need to explain to me. I’ve been having so many issues just using vscodium, took me forever to figure out I need to build and compile the code myself and not run it using the play button like Visual Studio in school (I’m a second year comp sci student).

  • dan@upvote.au
    0·
    9 months ago

    I used to like MonoDevelop maybe 10 years ago, but it’s not around any more. If I remember correctly, it was the only open-source IDE that supported C# and ran on Linux. That was before C# and .NET were open-source and Mono was the only way to run C# apps on Linux. Things are way different now.

    The best today is obviously nano. It has syntax highlighting, auto-indentation, and at some point they made it so Ctrl+S saves the file. What more do you need? (cut and paste still use weird shortcuts though)

        • Helix 🧬@feddit.deEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          In file size certainly, yes.

          Vim’s size can vary considerably based on how it’s compiled. A minimal build might be a few hundred kilobytes, while a full-featured build with a GUI might be several megabytes. The CLI version is a bit smaller than micro though.

          Micro is a relatively newer editor compared to Vim and Nano. Its binary, which includes all its dependencies, is larger than Nano but smaller than a fully-featured Vim. It’s typically around 15-20 MB.

          Nano is lightweight and typically comes pre-installed on many Linux distributions. The binary size is usually less than 1 MB.