I stumbled upon this amusing thread on twitter where people were discussing different editors.
Don't get me wrong, I shared these tweets because I find them funny. It also made me look back on my developer journey and the editors I used before.
Here's my Editor journey.
I was wondering, what's your editor journey like?
Share them down below.
Top comments (35)
I started on a Commadore 64 with the editor for the Basic language that came with it, to punch card typewriter in college, to Emacs, then Notepad++ since I couldn’t find an Emacs on Windows then, Sublime Text on a my first macOS system, back to Emacs with Spaceman’s, then to Neovim, and now I’m going back and forth from Onivim 2 and LunarVim on neovim.
Wow you go way back! Haven't had the chance to test Onivim 2 and LunarVim, but I might soon. Thanks for sharing, Richard!
43 years of programming and you use a lot of different things! Those were just my highlighted editors.
Wow! If you distill some of your lessons / realizations from those 43 years, what are they? Mind sharing them? 💪
For Me It Was VSCode Because It's Just that of Size Nearly 70 MB That Time and I Can Install It in College's Windows Computer and Library's Ubuntu Computer both easily.
Before I Thought of trying the Atom Editor but there website did not had the Build Of 64 Bit Windows to Direct Download So I gone to alternative option.
After using VSCode and Using there Variety of Plugins helped the most for web development that time.
I Also Fascinated by VSCode Because My College Syllabus had C and C++ in it and College PC had Turbo C++ Compiler and they still use it to teach that language because the book had instructions related to Turbo C and Borland C++ I think, They Still Use that Compiler.
My Advice is that if you ever use that compiler you will gonna get depressed dude.
I Support Modern Programmer Should avoid the Turbo C As Much As Possible.
Bye 👋,
Turbo C Antagonist
Turbo C's a classic, but it's okay for it to stay that way.... a classic. Thanks for sharing
My journey:
I agree, VScode's awesome indeed. I would've used VScode for all my development workflow if I hadn't started with Vim and got so used to the keyboard center navigation. Thanks for sharing, Naufan!
Ah yes, "journey" is the right word.
On CP/M:
On MS-DOS:
On Windows:
On Linux:
Probably worth noting that while I remember looking at Emacs and Vim in the 1980s I just never took to using them anywhere. I know just enough Vim to let me edit a line or two when I've got a remote terminal mode into something that only has that.
The tweet lacked details, but its my editor progression from when I started coding until today that's the reason why I used 'journey' as the term. I started from Notepad with Vim as my editor for almost everything today which made me interested in how devs progressed with their editors. I hope that clears it.
On the other hand, your editors give me the idea that you're some sort of veteran. Thank you for sharing
Turbo C >> Code Blocks >> Eclipse >> VsCode
And now only VS Code 🎉
YOOOOOO turbo c was lit.... before! I'm glad there are better editors now.
Dreamweaver 🥰
Those were the days
Hmm.
DOS -> debug for asm, Borland C IDE
Windows: Notepad, Netbeans
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Until I reached the age of reason and joined the cavalry.
Welcome my fellow Knight! You may lead the charge!
Brackets->Sublime->VSCode;
I think your editor of choice depends on the programming language. I use PyCharm whenever am developing with Python. For JS projects, i switch between VS Code and Atom. Buh VS Code mostly
Love the flexibility on this one! I just find less mental overhead when I stick to one. Thanks for sharing
Textmate -> Atom -> VsCode
Atom was really popular back then. I'm not so sure about it now. Thanks for sharing!