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[–] Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 3 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)

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] toothpick@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] melezhik@programming.dev 1 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

doesn't vim come with the Ubuntu installation?

[–] chad@sh.itjust.works 6 points 13 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.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 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.

[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 17 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (8 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.

[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I see you've never used emacs.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 5 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 3 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

So an IDE is a code editor that ships with an LSP server, not just an LSP interface? (Doesn't have to be LSP as such but "stuff that an LSP server does").

[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

I would say that an IDE is something that includes build/run tools integrated into it. Everything else is just a text editor. (But that's just my opinion of course)

To expand on my point, I don't think it makes sense to call vs code an integrated development environment if it doesn't actually have the environment integrated.

Visual studio and idea would be examples of IDEs, they actually have all of the tools and frameworks needed to run the languages they were built for out of the box.

You can't run node or python out of the box with just vs code for example, without their respective tooling, all vscode can do is edit the code and editing code is not functionally different from editing any other text.

So I maintain that both vim and vscode are text editors and not IDEs

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

Vocode integrates consoles for whatever you want. I use node and sql all the time.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 13 hours ago

I'd say build and run tools are pretty integrated into vim. Type :mak and there you go, it's not like vs studio would be a single process either.

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[–] AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 66 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 36 points 23 hours 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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[–] Korkki@lemmy.ml 18 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

I code using grep's search and replace.

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[–] Plumbob@lemmy.zip 41 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

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

So VIM?

[–] moody@lemmings.world 19 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] llii@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 hours ago

I think gedit is a great text editor.

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 11 points 18 hours 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.

[–] sockpuppetsociety@lemm.ee 12 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

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

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[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago

That boy is gonna be a murderer

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 12 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

text editor application that came with Ubuntu

nano

shivers

[–] Conclusionallusion@lemm.ee 10 points 20 hours ago (7 children)

I'm probably in the minority but I think it's fantastic! No extra baggage, super quick to work with, and it does syntax highlighting pretty well!

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 5 points 16 hours ago

Nah man, I'm with you, nano is no nonsense get shit done editor. It might not have advanced features but I'm not an advanced man.

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