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Which editor(s) do you use and why?

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Robert van der Elst
·Oct 14, 2015

There have been polls and questions about which editors one should use or which one would be best for a certain programming task.

But I'm wondering which editor(s) you really use and why. So I want to hear your personal experiences and caveats, the positives and the negatives. I've been using a lot of editors throughout the years, from HotDog to Dreamweaver to Editplus to Notepad++ to bigger IDEs like Eclipse, but below are the ones that I use at the moment, both for work and for personal coding.

So I'll start small :)

Sublime Text 2

Positives

  • Packages (Emmet, JSLint)
  • Highly customizable (keymapping etc.)
  • Theming (I like dark themes ;) ), Monokai ftw

Negatives

  • Sublime Text 3 should be on it's way, but I have hear rumors that they'll stop development :(
  • Performance drops if you have many files open

Atom

Just have been using this editor for a couple of days

Positives

  • Packages (same as Sublime, but management is easier)
  • Highly customizable, even more than Sublime. Again really easy
  • Layout is nice and clean
  • Github made it, continuous development
  • Just uses below 18MB of RAM (I checked ;) )

Negatives

  • JSLint just shows one error at a time (might be a setting?)

So for now Atom wins for me, but I don't know how both handle other parts like GIT integration or function/class/method/variable finding across different files.

I'm a lightweight user in that sense. ;)

Anyway, let me and other developers know which editor(s) you use, maybe we'll learn of an unknown gem ;)

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