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For Python, VS Code and Jupyter Lab. I used Sublime Text 3 previously but have found VS Code to be easier to set up and better supported over time. I do miss how fast and lightweight Sublime is this compared to VS Code though so I still use ST4 as a general text editor.
For Excel VBA (ugh), pretty much have to use the built in one as there doesn’t seem to be any alternative.
Visual Studio
Notepad++ for non ide stuff like data files and scripts.
Occasionally Visual Studio Code. For mass text replace and some other tooling / envs.
Personally I use notepad++ just for xml
It keeps changing with the job. I've used Eclipse a whole bunch of times for Java projects, IntelliJ a couple of times. Pycharm for Python. Vim for Bash and a bunch of other stuff. QT Creator for some C++ with the QT framework. Now it's mostly VSCode.
VSCode is the best code editor around, the plugin ecosystem is phenomenal, copilot specifically has been the biggest boost to my output in 15 years of development.
Unfortunately it doesn't do everything, I got stuck with some really old legacy software and have to hop into the vb6 ide, code::blocks, and very rarely visual studio.
Multi-cursor wizardry is absolutely life changing
Mostly VSCodium and Sublime-texr
Atom
I'm a code block and Eclipse kind of guy who forced to use Visual studio because of Unreal Engine
Mostly neovim, sometimes VS code
what, no love for CodeLite when working on smaller projects?
I started with Notepad++ and some CSS-specific editor (I can’t figure out the name anymore!), then switched to Brackets (RIP), Atom (RIP) and eventually landed at VS Code. I want to use VSCodium, but some of my favorite extensions are missing and their maintainers refuse to add them to the open VSCodium extension registry…
I would also like to try more “native” editors like Nova, but so far I always ran into blockers with it.
Oh, and for working on Markdown files I use the great Typora!
Bruh, you can literally just copy the '%USERPROFILE%.vscode\extensions' folder to the respective VSCodium folder and those extensions will appear on VSCodium as well.
Even with VS Code and the proprietary VS Code marketplace, I’ve run into compatibility issues with extensions when upgrading VS Code. So, I’m not too keen to start managing extension files manually. And please don’t call my "bruh".
Whichever text editor is available, vscode, jetbrains for the language I'm using, firefox (jupyter notebooks), etc.
Not seeing textmate in the replies. It’s a nice lightweight one.
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NetBeans
Mainly Visual Studio. Lots of .NET stuff
NeoVim
I mainly just do basic bash scripting on servers so i just use vim for simplicity. And I'm looking up stuff on the side in another window.
I'm pretty partial to vim.
Used to be PyCharm but started switching to editors. This was accelerated when I started with Rust. Now I use Kate and Nano and sometimes Gedit