How people react when they see me work.

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.

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

So VIM?

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

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.

The person that codes in MS paint

I code using grep's search and replace.

And then there is a colleague who programs in Notepad++ directly on the test server and then just copies his code to prod.

(yes, he works alone on that project)

text editor application that came with Ubuntu

nano

shivers

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.

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

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.

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

One word: ed

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.

I do it in nano over ssh. The shortcuts suck but it gets the job done.

helix ftw 🧬

I coded several of my early mobile app releases entirely in gedit. Good times.

I sometimes forget how good we have it now. I wrote those apps around 2012 and the DX for the platforms was basically non-existent. Virtually every platform had shit documentation, shit version management, a shit IDE with minimal refactoring features, a shitty debugging experience, and everything felt like it was being botched together by 3 guys in their spare time.

It's incredible now that we have things like hot reloading. You can literally save a change and BAM it's on the screen seconds later. On native platforms no less. Astounding.

Sublime! There are DOZENS of us! Dozens!

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)

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

notepad.exe

That boy is gonna be a murderer

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

doesn't vim come with the Ubuntu installation?

...dude codes in ed

if you've never used ed(1) technically it's illegal for you to say "it's a UNIX system, i know this"

What about people, who just burn the machine code directly onto a CD with a laser?

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

Vi came with Ubuntu.

Man I just use Notepad or IDLE most of the time, I feel you man

i've programmed in edlin. so there.

Pe is the true way.

Yep. Fancy devs watching me coding some Rakulang in nano 😂

Elementary os has a great code editor, zed is nice, even gnome builder.