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[-] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago

You don't even need a text editor, you can write it on paper.

But both are terrible options if you want to actually get stuff done, now that we have better tools.

[-] ReallyCoolDude@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

Mate people feel hacky if they use VIM to write code. Double the time, and corrections commits all the time

Oh yeah, vim motions are peak. Still not a substitute for a decent IDE, though.

Vim is great at what it does (help you write/change text faster), I just don't think that's the right goal to pursue when it comes to software development.

[-] undu@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 days ago

Still not a substitute for a decent IDE, though.

It is with plugins, however. I've used neovim for years at work and it has LSP capabilities and grammar-based syntax parsing. So it provides lots of IDE-like features on top of its excellent text-editing features. Nevwrmind that it integrates with the terminal much better than IDEs.

So I couldn't disagree more with your statement

[-] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Neovim seems more like an IDE than a text editor from what I've heard of it, yeah. I'm talking about plain old Vim, though.

[-] moormaan@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

I use IntelliJ with a vim plugin, so I get the motions, but also an IDE. IntelliJ has excellent terminal support. For Java, there's no better setup.

[-] fatalicus@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

How are you going to build that application you wrote on the paper?

[-] mattyroses@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Just take a picture and give it to AI

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