Do people think they make vscode out of the goodness of their own hearts or something?
I've not used either, just look on as a curious spectator, I've yet to leave the more idiot proof distros of mint and fedora. What makes it so hard to deal with vs nix?
I always wonder why GUIX seems to get left out vs NixOS
I almost see Pulsar as the anti-VSCode/Microsoft in a way. Microsoft slowed development and killed Atom in order to promote use of VSCode. Instead of letting it die we decided to keep it alive and offer it as a viable alternative. So in some sense it almost exists just to spite Microsoft's attempts to kill it.
It is indeed, we picked up where Atom left off. And yeah, not just "one of" but the og electron app.
I've been wanting to get more and more thematic with naming things but my efforts haven't come to fruit just yet. Like we have "regular" and "rolling" releases but those are boring (although descriptive), I was proprosing something like Nebula and Quasar, you know, something that ties in with the space name.
It absolutely isn't "another electron app" in that sense. Atom (and now Pulsar) literally invented Electron, it is the original Electron app to the point where even thinking about de-coupling it isn't really possible. Electron literally used to be called "Atom-shell".
Glad you found us at least :) Those were the exact reasons we wanted to keep it alive, I tried but I just can't get used to VSC having used Atom for so long.
Yay, always nice to see people mention it (outside of myself just shouting it into the void :P) - we are active on Lemmy now at !pulsaredit@lemmy.ml too.
I like the idea of Howl, its just a shame that interest and development seem to have dried up. The use of Moonscript might put people off rather than just using Lua.
- Helix for terminal editing because I never got on well with the order you had to do things in Vim, Helix (and Kakoune) make more sense to me.
- Lite-XL for a lightweight GUI editor. I just think its neat.
- Pulsar for everything else (mainly because I'm involved with it, come visit us on Lemmy at !pulsaredit@lemmy.ml /shill). Literally over 10k packages for install and an awful lot of active development.
Edit: Using this to give a shout out to other projects I've come across on my travels:
- Brackets/Phoenix - A community effort to keep the abandoned Adobe Brackets editor going, has a web version now, linux version still in the works after Adobe removed support for it.
- CudaText - Pretty fast and supports a huge number of languages
- eCode - Not used it in a while but is part of the eeep GUI project, lightweight and pretty interesting with lots of active development on both eCode and eeep.
- Bitters - Very much an oddball here, inspired by the Canon CAT word processor/computer from the 80s with a really interesting "leaping" way of navigating text.
- Aura Text - Interesting little editor written in Python
And some terminal ones:
- Zee - an emacs-like editor written in Rust. Main repo seems to be dead but one of the Lapce devs is working on a fork of it - https://git.panekj.dev/pj/zee
- Amp - another Rust based editor with some interesting ways to navigate text
- dte - Just a nice terminal editor
- moe - Vim-like editor written in Nim (not to be confused with GNU Moe)
- Feather - Specifically for opening huge files
- Tilde - Curses type interface, can be used with a mouse in some terminals
"British petroleum" hasn't been a thing for over two decades. ..