I tried 10 code editors 

My favorite part of the video is that all the terminal-based IDEs were shown inside the VSCode integrated terminal

i program on paper. Really easy to use. For exemple if i want to go to any line, no keys need to be pressed, i am already on it with my eyes. To erase a line i select the eraser tool and skrtch skrtch the line i want to remove. If i make an error, i don't know it until my CS professor give me a low grade. It force me to program like a pro and make no mistakes. Also to exit it, it way easier because i just push the paper away from me.

I was a contract programmer for many years, working on Unix and Linux systems, so I used VI or VIM for most of the time, unless the client had a specific setup they used. This was mainly because VI was everywhere, and for the most part my time with the company was in the 6-12 month period and setting up something complex like EMACS wouldn't have been a useful use of time. It was far from ideal, but it worked for me and much of my work was hunting down minor bugs that no-one else wanted to do, so the actual amount of typing of code or editing was limited to small changed or shifting about blocks of code, things that VI do adequately. I once bought a Sublime Text licence which I still use to this day now I am retired (after I pinned my version when they retrospectively changed the licencing) where I'm no longer concerned about having the same setup wherever I go. I have started to think about Visual Studio because its used a lot in the Arduino/ESP32 community and can be used for the other languages I regularly use (Python, various assemblers) and I'm toying with the idea of C Sharp if only out of interest and making Linux/Windows compatible graphicy programs. My general advice is the best IDE or Editor is the one you use most, in reality most people use less than 10% of the functionality of even simpler editors, and the most important thing is how well it integrates with the other tools you use like source management, cloud storage, and the languages you use. Thonny is a great little tool when working with MicroPython and other embedded programming, but the editor is limited which is mitigated somewhat because the programs you are developing are also usually small.

TIMESTAMPS: 0:53 : VI 2:10 : EMACS 3:26 : VIM 4:25 : neoVIM 4:52 : Nano 5:30 : Notepad 6:07 : Dreamweaver 6:46 : VScode 7:52 : platforms specific IDE’s 8:00 : VSstudio for Microsoft’s .NET framework 8:36 : JetBrains

Using a jetbrains ide feels like using photoshop: it has everything you'll never need, with amazing features multiple menus feel you keep uncovering. But it also has weird features, like a button to print your terminal output to a printer?

One really important point about editors is that your project should not need a specific editor to write code. Looking at you Eclipse. Every member of the team should be able to pick whichever editor they want. All build scripts should exist outside of the editor itself because your code should last for decades and many editors will come and go.

This video is 7 months old and I've learned so much. Got all the notifications turned on from now on !!!

Been using VS Community for ages but decided to try out VS Code after watching this. Dear god, it's so much better for me. I never needed 90% of the features of VS and it feels so much better without all the visual bloat, since i can actually hide all the stuff i don't need. I even set myself a cute lil background image with the Shalldie plugin and together with the Dracula theme everything looks beautiful!

00:50 - Vi 02:10 - Emacs 03:24 - Vim 04:25 - Neovim 04:51 - Nano 05:30 - Notepad / Notepad++ 06:05 - what? 💀 (Dreamweaver) 06:38 - Sublime text - Brackets - Atom 06:46 - Visual Studio Code 08:02 - Visual Studio 08:38 - Jet Brains

For Angular 2+ devs: Webstorm can automatically import ngmodules for you when you declare a component or feature, e.g if you write *ngif it can automatically import CommonModule. Also Webstorm has Vim emulation, I'll tell you more once I figure out how to exit.

If your going to school or learning CompSci, InfoSec, or just programming in general. This channel is a MUST

Awesome content delivery! It was both informative and entertaining, you got talent, thank you!

Important to note, JetBrains can be a bit pricey but if you're a student/academic you can get all their stuff for free with your university email! I got PyCharm as part of a software bundle when I started my undergrad and I would honestly struggle to use anything else at this point...!

0:52 I used punched cards in a University summer job. The keypunch was a think an IBM 129 unit -- it actually had a memory for storing the contents of a card. You keyed it all in (you couldn’t actually see the characters you were keying, just a column count), then pressed the Punch key to actually punch the card, and if there was a mistake, you just advanced to the column where the error was, fixed that, and punched a new card from the updated memory.

Kudos man. You kept it very simple and helped make the first steps in soft soft. Very Helpfull! Thanks!

I am a webstorm advocate as well. It's hard to think anything could be as useful as VSCode, until you see the level of extra IDE functionality you gain. Of course, price could be a concern, but if it helps you do a job faster, then it's an investment!

Please make more “i tried” videos!

I think KDE's text editor Kate deserves more attention. It was just a notepad clone with syntax highlighting a few years ago, but now it has code completion, function information on mouseover, error checking with compilers, integration with git, LSP support, and embedded versions of KDE's terminal and file manager. It's also very lightweight still.

I had 200 IDEs when i started programming. I actually started with notepad++ (i didn't understand linux back then), than eclipse and atom, after a while i started to use ubuntu and used vim for a while but then.. i found IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate.. one IDE.. nearly every scripting and programming language... i love it!!

Best soft soft tutorial for beginners on RU-vid! I'm an absolute beginner and all the other tutorials I've found on RU-vid have been so

I’ve had to use almost all these over the years but JetBrains has always been my go to for starting any new projects. Haven’t found anything that can come close to its refactoring and auto imports.

5:52 Thank you, I will absolutely be describing notepad++ as "Microsoft Excel for writing code" from now on

I’m in love with this channel. Specially the humour 😂😂🤭 funny guy who makes the computer science videos fun and not boring like others. Thanks for making our day!

Quasi-retired 53 year old programmer - I've used, as in written something worthwhile/profitable with, every editor on this list (except the Android one, ugh). Currently use Neovim for my hobby programming in Elixir, Python and SQL. I really enjoyed IntelliJ when a work project forced me to use Java. VSCode was fun and extensible, but a desire to simplify has brought me back to Neovim/LSP/Mason and it feels like home after all these years.

4:38: Allow me to contribute a second datapoint here: Vimscript sucks. Integrating Lua into Neovim was a good move. Neovim also recently integrated LSP support, so you can get a very IDE-like experience.

I switched a year ago from VSCode to Neovim, what an awesome experience. It's been rough to learn in the beginning, but letting the mouse aside is really nice, both for speed and for health.

I miss Atom.

i use vi because im paid by the hour

being able to switch code editors situationally is pretty useful. personally I use sublime to look at long files that would take some time to load on vscode, vscode for editing text (their multi-line editing shortcuts are quite refined) or for personal projects, visual studio for work-related stuff. vim when I just need to edit something real quick in command-line.

I swear you never make a bad video. Amazing as always. I use vim, btw. edit: yes, i still can't exist

I tried a lot of this. Atom, Notepad, Netbeans, VisualStudio Code and more, but my absolute favorite is jetbeans with the material ui theme. Nice, very clear, fast and very user friendly

BROOO thankyou so much, this really helped and the tutorial was really easy to use as well :)

If you would install 40+ VSCode extensions, then rework them all to be more reliable and seamlessly work together with optimized UI you would get JetBrains IDE. Does everyone need 40+ extensions to work efficiently? No, so not everyone will benefit from jumping to JetBrains products from editor Sublime or VSCode.

Really interested in Fleet when it comes out.

Thank you and thanks Michael. Solid advice from both of you.

Visual Studio code is my absolute favorite. Pretty much covers anything you need.

You don't need to use Emacs in the terminal. The GUI is clean and simple and with frameworks such as Doom it's easier than ever to jump in and start working. This was not the best showing for Emacs.

This video does a great job of combining being informative with being hilarious at the same time. I already knew about these editors except for the upcoming new JetBrains products, and watched it primarily find out if it discussed editors I did not know about.

The first IDE I enjoyed was android studio. So jetbrains is always my go to. For the past year, webstorm has been the most used application on my machine more than 10 fold anything else. Just about every setting, plugin, theme and config that makes sense for the workspace is cross compatible with jetbrains ides as well.. even bare bones eclipse can export and import preferences such as themes. So a lot of my configuration is finished and feels familiar when using a new jetbrains ide for the first time.

Fantastic tutorial, keep up the great videos!

Microsoft's push for LSP has made all refactoring and smart tools available on every editor that supports it. My neovim config works much much better than having to open up a PHPStorm for every project.

Emacs is not a terminal app, you should use the GUI version, emacs doom is also a cool thing

I use QtCreator. Pretty lightweight and powerful. Especially the build in tools like clang-format, clang-tidy, clazy, cppcheck, gdb, vallgrind, callgrind, perf, git integration(i like the diff view), automatically refactoring, etc

Thank you for explaining this thoroughly!

The amount of research and work put into these videos is amazing. Keep up the wonderful work man!

My favorite terminal editor is *micro*, I use it on Windows and Linux and it feels like a desktop editor with all the normal shortcuts and mouse support. For desktop, well VSCode of course. Also the guy who developed nano is a Patreon for a tonne of different channels I watch!

Thank you so much Sensei! You are a blessing!

Thanks dude this really helped me a lot I did the steps that's you did thanks man!

Probably one of the best video yet from this man. Perfectly balanced in memes & useful information.

A thing that's often missed in the history of Nano is that it's a F/OSS clone of Pico, which started life as the Pine Composer, the editor embedded in the Pine email client.

Woah, great video mate!

Dude I love you, never stop posting 🧡

I can’t believe he skipped the important parts of neovim such as built in lsp, treesitter integration, and more

3:20 WAIT THATS NOT A JOKE IT ACTUALLY HAPPENS LOL

Good video and definitely an interesting way of using the jordan meme.

BROTHER, YOU ARE THE BEST!!! You oooh really helped me!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

That little moth banging away at those drums has my heart

7:53 You are saying like we "want" to use xcode. No, it's Apple forces us to use xcode.

one of the first things i install on a new system is micro. it’s fairly new, has catpuccin themes, and has modern text editor shortcuts + tabs

wow, what a great video! its informative and funny and has michal jordan in it! this must be what youtube was made for.. keep up the great work - liked and subscribed

This was a great vid! I’m going to honorarily shout out Micro, which is not yet a mature text editor but sits in the right-middle of vim-nano. It’s non-modal, has mouse support, and uses lua for plugins (but with golang bindings, which is difficult) with easy-to-write syntax highlighting files. I’d love a switch to tree-walk highlighters like atom(rip) was starting implement, but it’s genuinely a good program and I use it daily. Maybe I’ll learn neovim someday, but I’ll get so used to my changes I’ll have a hard time with it on someone else’s machine.

"IDEs can be awesome when you committed to a specifig platform" - nice phrase I say they same justifing my vim use for university where I'm writing on couple PL during semester

I'm just starting to learn programming and for now I'm VSCode all the way I tried Notepad++ (but the UI was unnapealing for me) and plain notepad (i had a bug and was desperate) Sublime text looked slick too but for some reason I couldn't install it or something Also my pc is on the medium range and I've only coded very basic things, so I haven't experienced lag or any disadvantages of VSCode

I use Notepad++ and MSYS2 for all of my languages I work in, I even write design documents in it. I like pieced together dev environments like that.

I hope someday VSCode switches from Electron to Tauri to make it way more lightweight. I know this probably never happened but let me dream 😅

Emacs rocks. Also, emacs is a GUI first software.

I'm a scientist and write a lot of Jupyter notebooks and I use Pycharm mostly to write code because Pycharm's notebook editor is way better than the default web interface one. If I need to bang out a quick script or edit something like a text file I almost always use vim. If I am taking notes or writing LaTeX, I use Textmate.

It worked perfectly!!! Thank you so much

In emacs you can setup email client, play games, do anything you want to do

Emacs is more of a Lisp based operating system. And before anyone says anything, the editor part is VERY good.

0:42 Programming in the old days was hard work, but being able to give the finger to unborn future generations made it all worthwhile.

Happy to pay for IntelliJ and all of their software. It does everything I need well and integrated. Love it! ❤

Man I really love Doom emacs, the perfect son from vim+emacs.

great video! one minor suggestion, add time stamps for the different topics (editors), thanks :)

Nice tutorials is much more simple than I thought with you explaining it. Currently half way through and I feel like I know every tutorialng already lmao

Nano is the best in terminal text editor. You can also customize it to add code syntax highlighting. I love the simplicity.

Should try some of the Vi offshoots with advanced configs such as Neovim (Try LunarVim config). Really enjoyable environment with support for fuzzy search, linting and code completion

Kakoune, while niche, is also worth a mention. Its user experience is very similar to that of Vi(m), though its modal mode is selection→command rather than Vi(m)'s command→selection. Behind the scenes it works very differently, especially with how plugins/extensions interact with it. Micro is also a neat terminal editor, providing shortcut keys familiar to those in GUI editors, and isn't a modal editor.

You are dope bro! Damn , thank you so much, subbed

I've learned to use vim about 2 years ago and I can't get out of it. The amount of control and speed I get with vim is that much good.

JetBrains IDEs are easily THE best IDE tools. I've been using them for years in work and have always been satisfied. Interestingly enough, I've never used their refactoring feature though.

I use neovim, integrated it with rust and c/c++ and it is awesome, never going back to vscode because it is fast, simple, not electron based, foss (which means bye microsoft), and using some plugins + nerd fonts it feels beautiful. Gotta try sublime next

I am your fan bro whenever I finish a task i watch your video that brings smile on my face i am proud to follow your channel

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPER HELPFUL man!! Thank you

I love Webstorm for all its polished Plugins. The database tool is the best I have tried

Refactoring and code completion in webstorm is far superior to VScode

Hilarious edit!! well done

6:28 "And if you're paying for DreamWeaver in 2022..." "Stop it, and get some help" 🤣 He's right though

2:40 I'd actually argue that Emacs is a modal editor but it modals are not vi-like command mode vs insert mode vs visual mode. The modal states in Emacs is key sequence prefixes. You can consider Emacs as being the insert mode most of the time and entering different command modes with key combinations like Ctrl+H. After you have pressed that combination, the editor is now in "help mode" until you get out of it. Luckily, the default mode is insert mode which seems to match human thinking better than vi-like "command mode is the default mode".

Emacs is more like VSCode but with Lisp instead of Java-Script. Emacs also can use Vim-Keybinds. I heard from many users that they moved from Vim to Emacs because of Emacs ability to extend itself. Emacs can use Emacs-Lisp for extensions that can be compiled and native modules written in any language to be extended.

0:03 bug was used before "hopper"(Shakespeare in genera use it), that is why was so hilarious, and also hopper didn't find the bug was other developer of the team.

The best code completion I ever got was through jetbrains and surprisingly neovim, I had customized it to the bones with 50+ hours spent on it. Moving away from it to webstorm for a while was a pain. Used vscode last week after 2 years and it feels like shit in comparison.

Over a decade ago, I came across this doctor that had written his own document scanning app in notepad++ and was using notepad++ as the middleware. I had never seen someone MacGyver a text editor like that before.

I'm not a programmer. I'm a hobbyist who likes programming. Every once in a while I'll need a hardware interface or want to write some code to play around with. (I'm working on realistic landscapes right now.) For me, having to learn this season's cool ide is huge waste of time. It used to really hold me back. Sure, it only takes a few days to get up to speed but, when just want to bang something out, why bother. I totally understand that, for professional programmers, having a good ide is critical. But, I'm happiest with a text editor (Kate) and gcc in a terminal.

Dreamweaver is great for editing HTML inside of emails. It allows to you easily see and select tables that are inside of tables inside of tables...

Hey fun fact, emacs has a mode called "evil mode" it changes emacs keybindings to vi keybindings and there is nothing else to say

Actually works.. Just disable the real time protection in Setting. Wasnt sure that it would work .Awesome bruh..

What no Ultraedit32? 😛 Also, Nano was out before 1999, but probably still the 90s. When I had access to an ISP during those '90s, I regularly ran Nano to edit text files on my shell account. Then again, I was using edlin to edit my BASIC source code, found a copy of WordStar (when I switched from TRS land to IBM compatibles) and used that until I broke down and got Norton's Editor. Which was an improvement. I also tried eel, an emacs work alike. Fun stuff all the way back then. Today, I have a lifetime subscription to IDMs UltraEdit. And so I use that. It was cheaper than buying the upgrade for three years... I've got VS Code installed. I probably had vi at some point, but that was 16-bit code, and it no longer works on 64-bit Windows. There's probably (another) port for now as well. If I don't want to go through WSL. I'm retired now, so I don't really need much more than the usual text editing, and I've been using UE for decades at this point, so it's not like I have to relearn something when I'm just trying to fix a text file.

If you ever do a part 2, I'd recommend checking out micro. It's kinda what nano should be imo - a very natural terminal-based experience for people coming from graphical editors. I'd love if OSes end up adopting something like it as the default $EDITOR

I think Kate (from KDE) is pretty good which is not mentioned. I mainly use it for C programming and also for bash, python and javascript.