I’ve tried VS Code, Emacs, Spacemacs, TextMate but I always come back to Neovim

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Neovim for me, going on 8ish years now? Tree-sitter has been a game changer for me, which is why I decided to work on tree-sitter-heex for a better experience with Phoenix Live View.

I’m interested in giving Helix https://helix-editor.com/ a shot once it is further along in development, it looks like everything I want in a modern text editor. Zed also sounds promising https://zed.dev/

Even the mere fact that you feel a need to make such a disclaimer is one more example of the weird cultishness that so often prevails in the tech world. VS Code is a tool. It can work perfectly for those who enjoy its particular affordances (and, yes, large numbers of these users ‘code all day’). As do Emacs and Textmate and nvim and monaco-in-LiveBook and probably notepad.exe and everything in between.

Tried out a few editors now and then but I’ve been a life-long user of Sublime Text 3 and now version 4.

Recently I discovered lapce (pronounced like lapse). It’s a cool editor project written in Rust with “Rope Science” under the hood and it utilizes the tree-sitter language grammars. Exactly what I was waiting for!

It’s nowhere close to be a replacement at the moment but it’s looking good and I imagine it might be in a year. Writing an IDE is a huge undertaking. So I’m learning Rust and trying to contribute to it.

Hope many more will become interested!

Doom Emacs user here which has Evil-mode as default and uses a module system with ‘config snippets’.

Pros:

• The power of Emacs with the keybindings of Vim!
• One thing that really shines is the Git addon ‘magit’; once you have worked with it there is no going back.
• no need for the mouse keeps me away from RSI

Cons:

• The configuration seems complex and not all examples you’ll find on the internet are suitable for Doom.
• LSP support is there but not as easy and reliable as in VScode.
• Keeping your config up to date with upstream is hard as no real changelogs are written.

VScode is nice too though. Much easier to setup I think and it does 95% really well (using extentions). For an Electron app it’s performance is amazing (compared to other Electron apps) which shows how serious Microsoft is about it. No shame in using VScode!