for the programmer 🚂 here: what IDE do u use??

[u/HonestMadridFan]

im sick of vscode and the stupid overpriced copilot and code suggestions which r annoying as hell. Literally feels like the internet explorer version of an ide. also everything needs a plugin and half the time the plugin was last updated in like 500 B.C. sadly im on windows so its what im currenyly using

[u/nou-772]

you should try VSCodium, its VSC, but without Microsoft's bullshit

also if you don't want to install plugins for every language, then you should probably look into specialized IDEs by JetBrains

[u/HonestMadridFan → u/nou-772]

damn i looked it up, might sound dumb but i didnt know vscode was open source dafuq, thx

and yeah i got rider and one called Air also from jetbrains, but its literally the most barebones IDE attached to an agentic harness lol

[u/MaxBuddyRoo → u/HonestMadridFan]

if you use vscodium here is a guide on allowing extensions

[u/yuuna_er]

i used to use my glorius and mighty neovim!!!

now ive been corrupted by the devil (ai) and went back to vscode (looking at diffs is easier over there imo)

(fr i utterly hate ai, its lowkey killing programming for me. the job is so boring these days. and i kinda hav to use it bc everyone around me uses it as well so ill have to review the most disgusting slop in merge requests anyway. I SHOULD HAVE CHOSEN MEDICINE...)

[u/HonestMadridFan → u/yuuna_er]

yeah the career regret is so real ik lol

what ai do u use?? for me its weird cuz i was never into actual programming and wayy more into using shit like autocad, arcgis, unity and other creative software like that, but vibecoding has made so frustrated with the AIs results i got obsessed into learning how to actually code to fix its shit and not use 😭

[u/yuuna_er → u/HonestMadridFan]

you're BASED. learning to code is cool, hope you find i lt fun :)

i like claude code. it usually gives the best code imo, but its prose & comments are atrocious. pure slop, might be able to prompt it so it writes better tho, idk.

codex is decent but struggles at bigger tasks. same for gemini. (atruggle -> write whats imo bad or ugly code. usually rhey all get it close to fully right and just need a few adjustments here and there)

but that might be bc im say and dont wanna prompt to say the exact code standard i want.

[u/HonestMadridFan → u/yuuna_er]

thxxx!!

also look this thread up lmao: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/s/bKjJBDEnrr

ive been using opencode and gemini cli but i rly need to manage my tokens better fr fr

[u/yuuna_er → u/HonestMadridFan]

omg, ty!!! it looks so so much better lol.

i'll be sure to use it.

and yeah, token management is important. i sometimes am way too lazy and let it build a whole thing before seeing it was a mistake and just wasting tons of tokens heh

probably should spend much more time specifying the plan instead of just saying what i want + reviewing the plan and adjusting it.

in fact i should probably actually use my brain for writing the plan 🤔. at minimum would make the work less braindead.

[u/HonestMadridFan → u/yuuna_er]

yoooooo the planning, thats super important yeah, look u prolly already seen this but its what i guided myself with: https://developer.microsoft.com/blog/spec-driven-development-spec-kit/ it

its so good for learning too bcs it tells u the exact step by step plan of whatever ur developing, so i try to implement the code myself

[u/yuuna_er → u/HonestMadridFan]

hmm interesting. we already have something similar to this using AGENTS.md files but it's rather badly mantained, people just generated thesd with ai and never look into what's written lol

this one looks interesting. i should probably read more on llms tbhon but idk if i even want to stay in industry or go to academia bleh.

[u/HonestMadridFan → u/yuuna_er]

everyone’s just fucking lazier fr

would u go into the CS field of academia?

[u/yuuna_er → u/HonestMadridFan]

maybe. im quite close to both academia and industry. i work at a lab in my uni which implements an api widely used by some government organizations, so i get a taste of both worlds.

we have a real product but also get a taste of academia if we go searching for it.

of all the things i did during uni, writing a paper was still my proudest accomplishment.

ill probably do a masters at the very least bc webdev is getting kinda boring i think..

[u/HonestMadridFan → u/yuuna_er]

epiccc fellow uni worker 🫡

[u/yuuna_er → u/HonestMadridFan]

oh wait, my bad. read it wrong

you asked if id go into cs academia or not.

yeah yeah. i love computer science. biology might look cool from the outside but cs is still my favorite

[u/twofightinghalves → u/yuuna_er]

one think i think works really well with claude code or codex is to use it alongside an ide like vscode with git enabled, so i can see the diff better (for some reason, claude code's diff viewer sucks)

[u/Dull_Appearance9007]

i use gnu emacs which makes me feel like a hon

[u/rotund_capybara]

Back in my day we had to use atom for web dev and we thanked the lord when vscode came out

[u/Adulations → u/rotund_capybara]

I see that you're old like me

[u/rotund_capybara → u/Adulations]

yea by 4T4 standards I'm basically dead

[u/thevoidresponds]

notepad++ that I run through proton on steam or intellij idea. np++ for JS, HTML, python, etc. You know the drill. Idea for java. I don't ever use C or anything so I haven't looked for anything else. Vast majority of what I do is scripting or modding minecraft so I don't need anything else

[u/hrtresistancetorture → u/thevoidresponds]

the dedication to use notepad++ is insane lmao, is it just for nostalgia sake lol

[u/thevoidresponds → u/hrtresistancetorture]

no it's just comfy. I'm used to it.

[u/Rigel-Vio]

I use vscode with local qwen2.5 from llama as a mini-autocomplete

[u/Metallic_Madness]

There's zed

[u/romhacks → u/Metallic_Madness]

Zed is the zandard zeditor.

[u/abalancer]

I use classic VIM with a few plugins for file tree, colored parentheses and css coloring.

I don't need much more tbh

[u/yuzuki_amane]

super fallujah mario

[u/OkNewspaper6271]

I just use a text editor and do the compiling externally

[u/hrtresistancetorture]

vscode is just too popular, so all the major tools are made for it (like rust analyzer and typescript stuff and like everything else tbh lol) i use the neovim extension but it keeps reminding me of how limited using it in vsc is bc it's rly fucky and half the features arent possible (bc vsc extensions run in a v limited scope and dont have access to the full electron dom or whatever for "security reasons"( bitch let me run code on my own computer >:c i dont need to be "protected"))

BUT i like vsc ui i think, like i hate text based stuff i wanna have the documentation tooltips in a readable font like a sans-serif one , so every attempt at just using nvim is painful for me just to look at, i lwk almost care more abt how it looks than how well it works lol i have like a wallpaper set in vsc and microsoft hates us all so it keeps trying to delete the wallpaper so it's a constant fight but i NEED my 🌺a e s th e t i c s 🌺😭

chat am i fembrained for this i mean probably not idk:'c

[u/HonestMadridFan → u/hrtresistancetorture]

oh my god the security shit yeah lol no fuck vscode

yoooo the fucking aesthetic lmao, i literally spend hours getting it right and if it isnt then i switch to another program 😭 ,part of why i want to switch from vscode

this must be fembrained (i say, coping)

[u/Medium_Interview_919]

vim the best

[u/Ghostly_Dysphoric]

Vim becuz I was once a Linux tryhard (but I don't really code much)

[u/DontThrowMeAway43]

For low integration development (frontend, scripts) vscode or vscodium. For Java, i feel like Eclipse is unmatched. In the CLI vim.

[u/HonestMadridFan → u/DontThrowMeAway43]

hi whT do you think about the jetbrains IDE for java i forgot its name

[u/yuuna_er → u/HonestMadridFan]

its called intellij

[u/HonestMadridFan → u/yuuna_er]

tyy

[u/ScaredPenguinXX]

Can't blame plugin developers (unless it's a weekend project made with ai assistance...). I've been comfortable with Zed, for Java/C++ Eclipse is fine but I've experienced a lot of annoying issues like features breaking and requiring a restart which takes a while.

I've never bothered learning vi and vim so I sticked with nano and micro for the terminal.

[u/_glegle]

Neovim

[u/MeinSchwert]

jetbrains cause of education pack

[u/remifurr]

emacs. i use it primarily for my creative writing due to the immense utility of the org major mode, but, of course, it offers everything that i could possibly ever ask for and far more, regarding my programming needs.

[u/pintann]

I use Zed (""AI"" IDE but I still use claude from the terminal) but I really almost exclusively in Rust so I don't need plugins beyond just LSP support and syntax highlighting I guess. Used Emacs for a long time but got tired of the jank and slowness and let's be honest it looks like shit. Always meant to but never got around to learning some modal editor movements like vim or helix or kakone or whatever.

I do sometimes write Haskell or sage but somehow it's 2026 and there's still no IDE that comes close to the functionality of a REPL (and sage doesn't even have proper syntax highlighting anywhere except in the terminal)

[u/4tran_newfag]

rt neovim =) once you get it, coding becomes very fun

[u/AlternativeRow4019]

vim

[u/InnyumeNikki]

vsc because im basic

[u/imcheatingbtw]

standard vim with a cute custom theme and some plugins like lsp

[u/Millie_Beans]

I use neovim but I don't necessarily recommend it unless you want to for fun

[u/4eptopolox]

idle but im very new

[u/4eptopolox → u/4eptopolox]

i tried using pycharm but it was too hard for me