While I understand the lack of proper open source alternatives for some software like AutoCAD and After Effects, it always felt weird that the best IDEs/Text Editors are made by big corporations, because you know, these are the tools programmers use.

I tried vim/neovim, which I enjoy using, but I’ve come to prefer visual editors instead of text based. Kate looks promising, and I’m willing to contribute to it in my free time, but it just has that “amateurish” feel to it that I can’t explain.

Anyone aware of other alternatives?

    • Simon Weiss@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      This + package to enable VSCode marketplace. The only VSCode features it lacks afaik are out of the box settings sync and remote container development, which colud be substituted with plugins.

      EDIT: also be sure to check out Lapce suggested by Yote.zip - it’s a banger.

    • sprl@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Any idea how well vscodium runs on macos? Is the performance worde than normal vscode?

  • ed_cock@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    If you program in Python check out Spyder, some other languages also have specialized IDEs that can be really good.

  • monobot@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    People are writing different opinions, but you are right, best IDEs are comercial software.

    I think it is just because it takes a lot of time and effort on boring stuff to make this tools smooth. Generally in open source we work on fun parts and leave those boring last 20% unfinished, which is ok with me.l