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Pulsar, the best code editor (optimizedbyotto.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Pulsar (former Atom) is still the best code editor in my opinion. It is easiest and fastest to use, has all the nice productivity boosting plugins and is overall great for all the same reasons the Atom was great. 🚀

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I know several world class programmers, and interestingly, the commonality among them is that they all seem to use Vim as their code editor. Many people I know who think of themselves as world class programmers use Emacs.

What a burn!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

More like a personal bias in the form of a distasteful snark that the author thinks is funny. Their demonstrated knowledge about Emacs in the article indicates the worth of such remarks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Yeah, I commented elsewhere on the misinformation regarding emacs in the article.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You wouldn't happen to think of yourself as a world-class programmer by any chance?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If I were, I wouldn't be hanging out here, would I? BTW, I use both Vim and Emacs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Yeah it was just an open goal of a joke, didn't mean to be an ass 🙈

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

As a former Vim user myself, I have to say I really dislike screensharing with coworkers who use Vim. They are walking me through code and shit pops up left and right and I don't know where it comes from or what it is I'm looking at. Code reviews are painful when they walk me through a large-ish PR.

These days, I tend to bring my vim navigation/key bindings to my IDE instead of IDE funcs to Vim. Hard to beat JetBrains IDEs, especially when you pay them to maintain the IDE functionality.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Pair coding with vim is a skill in itself (for the vim user). You can make things a bit easier to follow by making liberal use of visual mode for example. I have a CoworkerMode command that turns on smooth scrolling via vim-smoothie and cursorline, and I've also added some stuff to the neovim right-click menu so that I can explicitly right click go to definition for example. It can be worth switching editor sometimes, but it's not always worth it if you're in the middle of something.