While I understand the lack of proper open source alternatives for some software like AutoCAD and After Effects, it always felt weird that the best IDEs/Text Editors are made by big corporations, because you know, these are the tools programmers use.

I tried vim/neovim, which I enjoy using, but I've come to prefer visual editors instead of text based. Kate looks promising, and I'm willing to contribute to it in my free time, but it just has that "amateurish" feel to it that I can't explain.

Anyone aware of other alternatives?

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[–] Treeniks@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Now it absolutely isn't open source or even free, so if that is a must feel free to ignore me, but I personally do still really like using Sublime. Once you install SublimeLSP I find it genuinely really clean to work with. And even though it's technically not free, you can use its free trial version for as long as you want (with the only drawback being an annoying popup), if you do buy it it's a one-time payment, not a subscription, and the package eco system is mostly open source (SublimeLSP e.g. is open source).

Again, not free, but much faster, more light weight and imo cleaner than VSCode, and definitely not very corpo given the rather small size of Sublime HQ.

[–] Andy@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

I agree with all this except the "one time payment" is only good for three years of updates.

[–] andrew@radiation.party 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve used sublime for over a decade and simply cannot stand how slow other editors are in comparison. Searching, jumping between files, etc is all just as fast one our huge production codebase as they are on my tiny personal projects. It’s insane

[–] lemann@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

I use Atom for personal projects and Sublime for work - it's shocking how fast Sublime loads up in comparison.

Hopefully Atom's successor can address the performance issues, by the other comment threads here it looks like Pulsar is a contender