While I understand the lack of proper open source alternatives for some software like AutoCAD and After Effects, it always felt weird that the best IDEs/Text Editors are made by big corporations, because you know, these are the tools programmers use.

I tried vim/neovim, which I enjoy using, but I’ve come to prefer visual editors instead of text based. Kate looks promising, and I’m willing to contribute to it in my free time, but it just has that “amateurish” feel to it that I can’t explain.

Anyone aware of other alternatives?

    • Simon Weiss@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      11 months ago

      This + package to enable VSCode marketplace. The only VSCode features it lacks afaik are out of the box settings sync and remote container development, which colud be substituted with plugins.

      EDIT: also be sure to check out Lapce suggested by Yote.zip - it’s a banger.

    • sprl@lemm.eeEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Any idea how well vscodium runs on macos? Is the performance worde than normal vscode?

  • monobot@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    11 months ago

    People are writing different opinions, but you are right, best IDEs are comercial software.

    I think it is just because it takes a lot of time and effort on boring stuff to make this tools smooth. Generally in open source we work on fun parts and leave those boring last 20% unfinished, which is ok with me.l

  • ed_cock@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    If you program in Python check out Spyder, some other languages also have specialized IDEs that can be really good.

  • nrbray@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I am on the path VSCodium --> Lapce under NixOS for visual editors and to decorporate my workflow. i.e. away from VSCode which is [otherwise] exceptional.

    However, Helix looks incredible.

  • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    What about JetBrains Fleet? I’m not sure it’s open source, but it’s free and I think it’s a direct competitor to VS Code.

    • 133arc585@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Quoting JetBrains,

      Fleet is free to use during the public preview

      (emphasis mine)

      So it is only temporarily free. Once it’s polished it will no longer be free. Better to not get tied in to something that will be taken away from you before long.

      • corytheboyd@kbin.social
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        11 months ago

        You can also just… pay for it? I give money to JetBrains in exchange for incredibly useful tools. It’s okay to pay for things.

        • 133arc585@lemmy.ml
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          11 months ago

          What a weird take. You’re allowed to pay for whatever you’d like. Personally, I can’t afford to pay for any JetBrains product, even if I wanted to.

          Not only are there alternatives which may be better overall or better suited to someone’s needs, that wasn’t even my point. My point was more that it is only temporarily free, and so the parent commenter’s comment of “it’s free” should be taken with a grain of salt if you’re considering the product.

          Moreover, we’re in the Open Source community: Fleet is neither free nor open source, and pointing that out here is relevant.