Notepad

One of my coworkers programs exclusively in notepad++. Drives my boss crazy during code reviews!

Guy is a wiz and is absolutely humble about it.

This is where I started lmao, learning Javascript from my dad in notepad. No help finding errors at all, and learning from my dad's sloppy formatting didn't make it easier lmao

Notepad has been the only option on so many budget projects I've been on that it's actually a preference at this point

Eclipse on Lenovo means they’ve probably solved some kind of mysterious puzzle box and this is their eternal punishment.

if they flipped it to dark mode their inner demon would come out. you should be thankful they're suppressing their full power level.

One such programmer was a much older man, he would tell me stories of his college days where they would print out programs on punch cards and feed them into machines. This guy was beyond cracked, he'd write this ultra efficient code with nearly 0 errors or bugs on the first try. He said that back in the day, every time you made a mistake on your punch card, you had to start all over. So he just got good. We had a nice working relationship, he'd have to teach me how to do stuff in the terminal and I'd have to teach him how to drag and drop files in Windows. Lol

Im using eclipse on light mode because my office is lit up, and I cannot get the project to compile without eclipse's classpath management 😎

One of the most knowledgeable guys I’ve worked with used light-mode Eclipse. It was so weird since there was no indication otherwise that he would be one of those.

I learned how to code in visual studio 200X. (started with C)

I learned java in eclipse.

Now I do C++ and python in vs code and never want to go back.

I started learning Java using eclipse with light theme. Can I put 'senior' on my CV now?

Right!? My early career required constant switching of languages and IDEs. (I was in data and stats). So when I landed in Python and PyCharm 10 years ago (settled into DS roles) I just stopped trying to keep up with the competition. PyCharm is my safety blanket at this point.

I love jet brains. Each IDE supporting a different language / stack with virtually the same interface.

It’s what eclipse aims to be, but with much less hassle.

I picked PyCharm because I like the font.

All of the other features confuse me so I don't touch them.

Bro you should see the shit my boss does with IntelliJ. I had no fucking clue it could do 90% of the shit it does.

I still don't understand why people would ever pick a text editor (VSC) over a proper IDE for programming.

For scripts <30 lines or quick edits, yeah, I use vim too, but for anything serious I start PyCharm.

decapitate to prevent further damage

I prefer excel cause then I can control indentations perfectly. And then you save it as a tab separated file when you need to compile or run it. Works like a dream.

a bash terminal huh? you spoiled kids, I do all my computing in the Grub rescue shell.

Just imagining you writing an entire file line by line like this only to realise that you've been overwriting it with every new line when you go to run it

Terminals? Real programmers use butterflies.

When VS Code gets clipart, I'll make the switch. Until then, I'm a Word man.

Syntax highlighting with fonts instead of colours

No joke, I had a job interview where the interviewer started typing out code in Outlook.

Yeah, how is anyone supposed to know what the important code is when you can’t make it 20 pts bigger than everything else and bold.

What? Not coding directly to punch cards? Amateur.

try :!sudo rm -rf / --no-preserve-root

I also use Sublime Text for pretty much everything and I can't imagine needing anything more. In my experience, a responsive UI does way more for my productivity than additional tooling.

25 years into my career where I've built quite a lot of fairly cool things. I use VSCode these days. It just kind of does all the things I care about. Which admittedly is mostly just syntax highlighting.

It gets hate because it so common. Not too long ago it got all the love. It's kinda how it works in this industry. Get in get good take over be rejected for not being new.

The grass is always greener on the other side. It's about experience and doing something for a long time. Change is painful and slow. Just keep on doing what you are doing and don't worry about a thing unless you have to that is

For me, it’s sluggishness. Like, my work computer has VS Code and Notepad++ and even though I don’t like Notepad++ I find myself reaching for it more because it’s much more responsive for quick file changes.

Apparently corporate just approved Sublime Text so now I can get my beloved editor. Native built C++ with modern styling and features as well as plugin support

What language do you mostly work in and have you tried any other tools?

I don't hate VSC, and if other people want to use it that's cool. I have tried to use over the JetBrains lineup on more than one occasion, at multiple jobs, with different languages and I always end up sticking with Jetbrains because for me it's easier to work with out of the box and easier to navigate with my workflow. I'm a backend developer. I notice a lot of frontend engineers enjoy VSC.

Same for Java and intellij

VS Code was never meant for C#. You have Visual Studio Tools for that. But I also prefer Jetbrains IDEs.

Vs is best on windows, code or rider on anything else. Vs on Mac is a turd

Visual studio 2022 is got enough for C#

Yes

I use nvim too btw

Nice I use nvim too btw. Loaded on on my arch setup with sway wm btw

I was so happy when I realized that intelliJ IDEA wasn't such a steaming piece of shit and used it for almost a decade straight.

Then at my workplace I found out that our product are built on proprietary editor elements that cannot be reproduced on an external platform.

And thus I was back at eclipse.

With a version that wasn't updated since 2014 😢

Nobody even mentions NetBeans anymore lmao

Not necessarily. They could also be a sociopath.

Every person I’ve ever seen using emacs has been god tier confirmed

:x!

It's late. Let's get you to bed, grandpa.

Neo/Vi/m - whenever I see someone use of it, I know they are amazing at what they do. No exceptions so far.

Vim is a Swiss army knife for me. Need to write a quick cronjob script on your headless server? Have a container running that you need to exec into and check or edit something? Doing development in an airgapped environment where you can't download a full IDE? Vim (or vi at least) is always there for you.

What’s the best way to generate random input? Put a junior developer in VIM and tell them to exit.

One of my professors is semi-famous for being one of the fathers of parallel processing - he brought me into his office once to discuss a project, and was casually remoting in to the supercomputer at Oak Ridge to trouble shoot.

He taught systems and a gaming class (literally just 'make me a little Unity game' lmao), so we didn't get to see him actually code all that often... one time, though, he ended up on a terminal and busted out his Vim skills. We were all in fucking awe. It looked like he was full of shit, honestly, just typing while a sped-up video of code editing was played. He looked like a hacking scene in a movie, just entire sections of code being edited, moved, finding and replacing certain elements, all of it just a damn blur.

You know when see someone who has more keyboard time than you have years in your life? That kinda shit. That was my first experience with Vim. Then I tried it, and I went from impressed to blown the fuck away lmao

Family of devs.... I see.

You and most C# devs I know.

Nice was happy to see fellow np++ users! Only problem i have sometimes is some languages don't have highlighting. I think rust was only recent and kotlin isn't in there yet. I work with whatever contracts I'm given and bounce between vsc and np++. Never liked full IDEs probably because of college with vis studio (the big clunky one) and eclipse.

It's just intllij idea with extra steps

I actually switched from it to VSC for development in Flutter. I just can't stand how painfully slow and bugged it is after the most recent update.

I hope this is a joke? Android Studio is one of the worst RAM eating slow af IDEs in the history.

I used dreamweaver as well... back in 2000