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Edit: I just saw the two typos. If you find them, you're welcome to keep them.

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[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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

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[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 hours ago

obligatory FSN linksscreenshot of SGI's FSN

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 3 points 6 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.

[–] Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 11 hours ago

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)

[–] angband@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

i've programmed in edlin. so there.

[–] sheepishly@fedia.io 1 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 5 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 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 1 points 5 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 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 3 points 6 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 16 hours ago

doesn't vim come with the Ubuntu installation?

[–] melezhik@programming.dev 1 points 11 hours ago

Yep. Fancy devs watching me coding some Rakulang in nano 😂

[–] chad@sh.itjust.works 6 points 20 hours 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.

[–] AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 67 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 37 points 1 day ago (3 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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[–] 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.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 1 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I see you've never used emacs.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 7 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 0 points 10 hours ago

Vim (and NeoVim) are as much coding environments as VS or JetBrains. The difference is in the defaults.

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[–] Plumbob@lemmy.zip 44 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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

So VIM?

[–] moody@lemmings.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] llii@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 15 hours ago

I think gedit is a great text editor.

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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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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

At one of my jobs around 2010 there was a dev in the office who wrote all his code in Notepad. When I joined the staff they were still using Classic ASP. My job was to help them (finally) migrate to ASP.Net. He intended to develop .Net apps in Notepad rather than learn how to use VS. I got laid off due to cutbacks and never found out what kind of luck he had wit dat.

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