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[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago

I coded several of my early mobile app releases entirely in gedit. Good times.

I sometimes forget how good we have it now. I wrote those apps around 2012 and the DX for the platforms was basically non-existent. Virtually every platform had shit documentation, shit version management, a shit IDE with minimal refactoring features, a shitty debugging experience, and everything felt like it was being botched together by 3 guys in their spare time.

It's incredible now that we have things like hot reloading. You can literally save a change and BAM it's on the screen seconds later. On native platforms no less. Astounding.

And then there is a colleague who programs in Notepad++ directly on the test server and then just copies his code to prod.

(yes, he works alone on that project)

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 4 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

if you've never used ed(1) technically it's illegal for you to say "it's a UNIX system, i know this"

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

I've used ed.

Ctrl+Alt+F3 htop /ed F9 Enter

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The irony being that scene had a GUI and ed is, well...

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[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 3 points 20 hours ago

obligatory FSN linksscreenshot of SGI's FSN

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I do it in nano over ssh. The shortcuts suck but it gets the job done.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

I recommend "micro" which is like Nano but uses modern shortcuts. Making it a terminal editor which feels more like using notepad than something esoteric.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 21 hours ago

I used to copy code into nano over ssh. Then I randomly tried pasting the server address in my file browser and it connected over SFTP. This was ages ago. I was using Crunchbang Linux, maybe around 2011 or so.

[–] toothpick@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can enable modernbindings in nano to get standard shortcuts like ctrl-s for save.

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

Did not know this. Will certainly look into it because my nano over ssh days aren't over yet haha.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What about people, who just burn the machine code directly onto a CD with a laser?

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 3 points 21 hours ago

Pff, real programmers use butterflies. We open our hands and let the delicate wings flap once. The disturbance ripples outward, changing the flow of the eddy currents in the upper atmosphere. These cause momentary pockets of higher-pressure air to form, which acts as lenses that deflect incoming cosmic rays, focusing them to strike the drive platter and flip the desired bit.

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

doesn't vim come with the Ubuntu installation?

[–] AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 72 points 1 day ago (10 children)

I genuinely do a lot of coding in Kate, the standard KDE editor. It's enough to do a lot of things, has highlighting, and is more than enough when you just need a quick fix.

I am also still using nano when editing stuff in the terminal. Please, don't judge me.

[–] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 1 day ago (4 children)

To be fair, Kate isn't just a text editor, it actually is an IDE. The text editor version would be kwrite, which would be horrible to program in.

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[–] angband@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

i've programmed in edlin. so there.

[–] Plumbob@lemmy.zip 46 points 1 day ago (4 children)

"Me who codes with the text editor that came with Ubuntu"...

So VIM?

[–] moody@lemmings.world 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] llii@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago

I think gedit is a great text editor.

[–] zorro@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Doesn't it ship with nano these days?

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 day ago

Both, last I checked.

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[–] sheepishly@fedia.io 1 points 22 hours ago

Man I just use Notepad or IDLE most of the time, I feel you man

[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (17 children)

Vim and emacs are text editors.

Vs code is a code editor (but really it's also just a text editor)

Maybe they mean IDEs like visual studio?

I've never really heard it called a coding GUI before.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I see you've never used emacs.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 7 points 1 day ago

"it's a bit limited for an operating system"

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 1 points 22 hours ago

I never quite understood the massive hard-on programmers have for splitting hairs.

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[–] Korkki@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I code using grep's search and replace.

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[–] TinyRhino@lemm.ee 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If you're not writing it all down on paper and then punching holes in cards, you're doing it all wrong

[–] Krelis_@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

All you need is a magnetised needle and a steady hand. Or butterflies.

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[–] chad@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

Learned C++ by using gedit on the Sun machines in my college's computer lab in 2007. They were decommissioned shortly after I graduated.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (4 children)
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[–] sockpuppetsociety@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

As long as you don't use Microsoft Word we can be friends

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 11 points 1 day ago

At uni I did a lot of my Java coursework in notepad, then I’d have to take it into a computer lab on a floppy, tar it and upload it to a unix terminal so it could be emailed to the professor. Java syntax with only the command line compiler is not fun.

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 day ago (3 children)
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