IDE and editor preference in 2024

[Picuino]

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology#1-integrated-development-environment

I prefer Notepad++. Surprisingly high in the list.

[SiliconWizard]

I mainly use Geany - I see that it's 1% .
It's pretty much similar to Notepad++ in spirit, I think better, but that's me. Now if you're strictly on Windows, I understand you'd favor Notepad++. Geany works on Windows, but it looks nothing like "native" on it.

[DiTBho]

They all suck so much I developed my own.
But, if I have to vote: geany on GNU/Linux.
Just, I doesn't run on pseudo color xterminals.
It's very annoying, gtk no more supports it.
It did, back to 2004.

[Karel]

https://kate-editor.org/

 

[djacobow]

I've been using vim more or less exclusively for 15 years now. Because of Moolenaar's demise, I've been experimenting with neovim.

[DiTBho]

I've been using vim more or less exclusively for 15 years now. Because of Moolenaar's demise, I've been experimenting with neovim.

What's your cofeflow?

[Whales]

Geany all the way!

Good:
* Fast & stable
* A single key shortcut takes you to the definition of something (like a struct or func). All without needing to have an external "server" to work out how things reference each other (Kate requires this IIRC) and without needing to define a "project".  It just works.
* Find & replace supports wildcards, regex and escape codes (all togglable)
* Block operations (un/indent multiple rows at once, type on multiple rows at once, etc)
* Sidebar document list, tree view or list.

Complaints:
* Spellchecker addon sometimes misbehaves, requires toolbar to be enabled to toggle on/off
* Moving to GTK3 provided no benefits but made the UI slightly worse

[cfbsoftware]

Astrobe of course 

We started with TextPad, toyed with customising Visual Studio and ended up developing our own.

[John B]

VSCodium is working pretty well for me across Fedora and Arch. I guess that is being lumped in with one of the first two?

I also like Geany, another similar one is KDE Kate.

Thonny gets an honourable mention when you just need to test some python code without setting up folders, or even saving a file.

[JPortici]

I mainly use Geany - I see that it's 1% .
It's pretty much similar to Notepad++ in spirit, I think better, but that's me. Now if you're strictly on Windows, I understand you'd favor Notepad++. Geany works on Windows, but it looks nothing like "native" on it.

oooh looks nice! i'll give it a try later . I'm still stuck with notepad++ on windows and kate on debian, good enough but still sucks as it has the "old" kde look and feel

[DiTBho]

Nedit + atags

Pros: based on *motif, so it runs on pseudo color xterminals
Cons: needs to be hacked, needs external programs like "atags" to "jump" to the definition of something

[Karel]

I'm still stuck with notepad++ on windows and kate on debian,

Kate is also available for windows (not that I would recommend windows anyway...)

[radiolistener]

This ranking appears quite odd - the popular and lightweight Geany is near the bottom, while bloated and sluggish editors dominate the top positions.

[DimitriP]

This ranking appears quite odd - the popular and lightweight Geany is near the bottom, while bloated and sluggish editors dominate the top positions.

One word: stackoverflow   

[RoGeorge]

Another alternative to Visual Studio, VScode, or VScodium, is Pulsar IDE.

The team from Atom IDE discontinued Atom and moved to develop VScode instead, which VScode has Microsoft telemetry.  VScodium (not VScode) is a re-build of VScode, but without the Microsoft customization (which customizations are added on top of the open source part of VScode).  Or so I've understood from random online reads.

Pulsar IDE is community maintained fork of Atom before it was discontinued.

[JPortici]

I'm still stuck with notepad++ on windows and kate on debian,

Kate is also available for windows (not that I would recommend windows anyway...)

I know, i've been using okular as a pdf reader for some time. I'm using kate on debian because it's the most similar to notepad++, not the other way around.

I tried geany. Uninstalled ten minutes later. Having to mess with the command line to change the language it's the posix way they say, you must call the binary with an argument. I say it's bullshit. There is nothing stopping you to read the locale from a file and pass it as an argument, and having a setting in preferences to change the locale to that file. Also, it doesn't seem to have the couple of bits i'm really used to from notepad++/kate.
Also the vanilla GTK look, no thanks.

Too bad, it looked promising from the previews

[Karel]

Choice is always good 

[DiTBho]

Geany is "ok".

There are a few things to be fixed, like how it handles files in a C-project.

Only absolute path? That makes it very annoying - because you lose the project references - when you move the project. I fixed/hacked to relative path.

Code: [Select]

[files]
current_page=3
FILE_NAME_0=/mnt/src/machine/platform/arm/zaurus/bootloader/src/v5/app.c
(not modified version of geany)

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[files]
current_page=3
FILE_NAME_0=./app.c
(modified version of geany)

The geany project file needs to be autogenerated in order to have the right directives { all, clean, clean_all, interfaces, run, test, ... } to your Makefile.

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[build-menu]
CFT_00_LB=_Compile
CFT_00_CM=make
CFT_00_WD=
CFT_01_LB=_Build
CFT_01_CM=make clean_all; make interfaces; make
CFT_01_WD=
filetypes=C;
EX_00_LB=_Execute
EX_00_CM=make run
EX_00_WD=

Not a problem, you just need to write a script for this.

The real big problem is how the geany interface is written: gtk-xml is very complex if you need to add/remove/change a button, e.g. { do
bg, ice, autoindent, coverage, ... }.

Plus, see here, supporting Markdown needs external plug-in, which are problematic to be compiled, especially on { mips32, hppa, ppc32 ... }

[SiliconWizard]

This ranking appears quite odd - the popular and lightweight Geany is near the bottom, while bloated and sluggish editors dominate the top positions.

How is that odd? It's the same thing for programming languages and a lot of other stuff.

[eugene]

Who the hell uses Jupyter Notebook to write code?

Anyway, I use Geany for most things. I've tried to become fond of VSCode, but we just don't get along. Mostly I miss a customizable ribbon bar. Yeah, I'm the guy that can never remember shortcut key combinations. A tool ribbon is my crutch.

[bingo600]

@linux mint

My favourite is Code::Blocks - Mostly because it's fast
https://www.codeblocks.org/
And it's in the repos

But i also have VScodium installed.

And Sublime , for those odd' jobs.

[djacobow]

Not sure I entirely understand the question, but I use LSPs to give me all the auto complete and syntax checking goodies. The LSPs get the build information from a compile_commands.json that is prior as a side effect of my build system, which at my current employer is Cmake, which I don't love, but it's okay. At other recent orgs I have used bazel or scons. For bazel, there is an add on that can make the json file. For scons, I used a build wrapper called near for that.

In almost all circumstances, I have a need to build a bunch of artifacts from the same source: targeting different hardware versions, or simulators, and different variations with experimental features, etc. Scons really handles that the best, IMHO, since basically it is just letting you use python to generate the dependency tree.

I've been using vim more or less exclusively for 15 years now. Because of Moolenaar's demise, I've been experimenting with neovim.

What's your cofeflow?

[langwadt]

I really liked ultraedit, but there is no way I am paying +100$ a year to use a text editor

[Picuino]

Who the hell uses Jupyter Notebook to write code?

https://allendowney.github.io/ThinkPython/
"The book is now entirely in Jupyter notebooks, so you can read the text, run the code, and work on the exercises – all in one place."

[westfw]

So… language-specific and language-agnostic IDEs are being rated on the same scale?
Hmmph.


I’m still using EMACS.