How people react when they see me work.

Learned C++ by using gedit on the Sun machines in my college's computer lab in 2007. They were decommissioned shortly after I graduated.

That boy is gonna be a murderer

Vim and emacs are text editors.

Vs code is a code editor (but really it's also just a text editor)

Maybe they mean IDEs like visual studio?

I've never really heard it called a coding GUI before.

So an IDE is a code editor that ships with an LSP server, not just an LSP interface? (Doesn't have to be LSP as such but "stuff that an LSP server does").
- I would say that an IDE is something that includes build/run tools integrated into it. Everything else is just a text editor. (But that's just my opinion of course)
  
  To expand on my point, I don't think it makes sense to call vs code an integrated development environment if it doesn't actually have the environment integrated.
  
  Visual studio and idea would be examples of IDEs, they actually have all of the tools and frameworks needed to run the languages they were built for out of the box.
  
  You can't run node or python out of the box with just vs code for example, without their respective tooling, all vscode can do is edit the code and editing code is not functionally different from editing any other text.
  
  So I maintain that both vim and vscode are text editors and not IDEs

At uni I did a lot of my Java coursework in notepad, then I’d have to take it into a computer lab on a floppy, tar it and upload it to a unix terminal so it could be emailed to the professor. Java syntax with only the command line compiler is not fun.

...dude codes in ed

Every self-respecting vi user should know enough ex to get by with ed.

As long as you don't use Microsoft Word we can be friends

What about the libre office version?
- Bonus points if you're saving it as an .odt and still producing a validly executable file of some kind

I code using grep's search and replace.

I code using a telegraph machine in morse code.
- I code using punch cards hand cutting each hole with a xacto knife

text editor application that came with Ubuntu

nano

shivers

I'm probably in the minority but I think it's fantastic! No extra baggage, super quick to work with, and it does syntax highlighting pretty well!
- It's also self explanatory, which is great if you're new.
  
  Ed and Vim are basically arcane by comparison.
- I also love it. It was my go-to back when I had to walk inexperienced sysadmins through configuring stuff, in my tech support days. I really appreciate all the commands being listed at the bottom.
- Nah man, I'm with you, nano is no nonsense get shit done editor. It might not have advanced features but I'm not an advanced man.
- Just wait until you try Micro
I doubt they mean nano
- Probably this
  
  https://apps.gnome.org/TextEditor/

"Me who codes with the text editor that came with Ubuntu"...

So VIM?

More like gedit
Doesn't it ship with nano these days?
Don't you have to install that? I thought Ubuntu came with vi and nano.

One word: ed

ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!
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- Ed is the most user unfriendly text editor ever created.
Oh, I remember ed! He's the talking horse from that old black and white show, right?
- No one can code with a horse, of course. That is of course, unless the horse is the famous mr Ed.

Notepad.exe has been my daily driver for anything that doesn't need a compiler for decades.

You mean the one that didn't even do proper line endings until recently?
- And would save in non-UTF8 format by default. No idea, if they changed that by now.
- Yep. There are simple command line utilities that will convert the line breaks if necessary.

I genuinely do a lot of coding in Kate, the standard KDE editor. It's enough to do a lot of things, has highlighting, and is more than enough when you just need a quick fix.

I am also still using nano when editing stuff in the terminal. Please, don't judge me.

To be fair, Kate isn't just a text editor, it actually is an IDE. The text editor version would be kwrite, which would be horrible to program in.
- Wow, you're right of course. I completely forgot kwrite still existed, tbh.
We're almost like coding siblings lol
KWrite is the standard text editor. Kate is the advanced one. The name actually literally stands for "KDE Advanced Text Editor"
- I'm not aware of distros preinstalling KWrite, though...?
Yep, I came here to say that Kate is really nice. Even though I'm an emacs user and won't use it.

Nano, on the other hand, can't do almost anything, so I can't recommend that people make heavy use of it. It's ok for random small edits, but that's it. (By the way, YSK that you can set your terminal to use Kate as the default editor by setting the $EDITOR variable.)
Me too. I'm still not sure what the problem is and I'm kind of afraid to ask.

I do have the plugin for multi-line editing set up, I guess.
- All the cool kids use vim, so using nano makes you uncool, I guess. But I use Mint, so I'm uncool anyway.
Geany is a nice GUI option. It's a bit more capable but still lean.

It's probably time for me to re-evaluate the host of coding editors out there. For the most part I just use good text editors. Though I do love Spyder, I only use it for a certain subset of tasks.

I write all my code on paper and use OCR to convert it. It almost works sometimes.

The person that codes in MS paint

This feels a little bit like Brainfuck tbh.

For what it’s worth, I can think of one thing that would make brainfuck even worse: Instead of using 8 arbitrary characters (it only uses > < + - . , ] and [ for every instruction) for the coding, use the 8 most common letters of the alphabet. Since it ignores all other characters, all of your comments would need to be done without those 8 letters.

For example, “Hello World” in brainfuck is the following:

++++++++[>++++[>++>+++>+++>+<<<<-]>+>+>->>+[<]<-]>>.>---.+++++++..+++.>>.<-.<.+++.------.--------.>>+.>++.

If we instead transposed those 8 instructions onto the 8 most common letters of the alphabet, it would look more like this:

eeeeeeeeaneeeeaneeneeeneeenesssstonenentnneasostonnIntttIeeeeeeeIIeeeInnIstIsIeeeIttttttIttttttttInneIneeI
This is such a waste of time to the point where it infuriates me. I know the standard answer is "why not?", but it's just cringe to, like you are trying too hard to purposely be stupid, whereas with standard text editor you can say already they cba'ed to install anything so it was a case of initial setup vs. long term productivity.

I like SublimeText for everything unless a quick edit at the CLI with Vim.

If you're not writing it all down on paper and then punching holes in cards, you're doing it all wrong

All you need is a magnetised needle and a steady hand. Or butterflies.
Real programmers code with TTL chips.

Sublime! There are DOZENS of us! Dozens!

I'm doing my part

Gedit was my main text editor for years. I also used it for work. It has all the basic features that you need for coding. For everything else I use the terminal.

Gedit is all one needs in life

I used Notepad++ for virtually all coding I did (Python, JS, various Markup Languages, Action Script back in the day, etc) for a couple decades. The only reason I use VSCode now is because I inherited a nightmare of a legacy spaghetti bowl and needed the function tracing to attempt to figure out anything. I still prefer N++ for most small projects.

I'm currently working with some code that partly was written in the punch card era.
Yeah, if you had really bad locality of reference I imagine that would be very helpful.

Code in MS Word because it handles tabs correctly, unlike all code editors.

Tab means "move to the next tabstop", not "advance a fixed amount".

(I don't do it, I'm not THAT insane)

Me: hits return.

Word: "Sure, here, a new line. I already indented it for you, same as the one before. Like a good IDE."

Me: "That's nice of you, Word, but I want this one to be indented one tab stop less than the line before." Hits delete.

Word: "Delete, you say? Sure, back to the line before."

Me: "No, no! Just delete one tab! Maybe, if I select the line and hit dele..."

Word: "Why of course!"

Me: "Shit, it's gone. Undo! Hmm... Move the thingy here on top?"

Word: "Move all the lines you say? No problem!"

Me: "Nvm, I'll just indent everything by hand with spaces."