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[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

That boy is gonna be a murderer

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)
[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Vim and emacs are text editors.

Vs code is a code editor (but really it's also just a text editor)

Maybe they mean IDEs like visual studio?

I've never really heard it called a coding GUI before.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 points 2 hours ago

At uni I did a lot of my Java coursework in notepad, then I’d have to take it into a computer lab on a floppy, tar it and upload it to a unix terminal so it could be emailed to the professor. Java syntax with only the command line compiler is not fun.

[–] Korkki@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I code using grep's search and replace.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I code using a telegraph machine in morse code.

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 hours ago

I code using punch cards hand cutting each hole with a xacto knife

[–] Daniikk1012@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago (3 children)
[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] zod000@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, I remember ed! He's the talking horse from that old black and white show, right?

[–] PumpkinEscobar@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

No one can code with a horse, of course. That is of course, unless the horse is the famous mr Ed.

[–] sockpuppetsociety@lemm.ee 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

As long as you don't use Microsoft Word we can be friends

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

What about the libre office version?

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Bonus points if you're saving it as an .odt and still producing a validly executable file of some kind

[–] sockpuppetsociety@lemm.ee 2 points 1 hour ago

You're weird, but we can be friends if you want.

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 7 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

text editor application that came with Ubuntu

nano

shivers

[–] Conclusionallusion@lemm.ee 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I'm probably in the minority but I think it's fantastic! No extra baggage, super quick to work with, and it does syntax highlighting pretty well!

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Just wait until you try Micro

[–] lengau@midwest.social 2 points 1 hour ago

Bloat! Who needs an editor 1000 times the size of their previous one?

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

I doubt they mean nano

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

Notepad.exe has been my daily driver for anything that doesn't need a compiler for decades.

[–] Plumbob@lemmy.zip 30 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

"Me who codes with the text editor that came with Ubuntu"...

So VIM?

[–] moody@lemmings.world 13 points 5 hours ago

More like gedit

[–] zorro@lemmy.world 12 points 6 hours ago

Doesn't it ship with nano these days?

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[–] 01011@monero.town 1 points 2 hours ago
[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 hours ago

I write all my code on paper and use OCR to convert it. It almost works sometimes.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 4 hours ago

I like SublimeText for everything unless a quick edit at the CLI with Vim.

[–] AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 45 points 8 hours ago (7 children)

I genuinely do a lot of coding in Kate, the standard KDE editor. It's enough to do a lot of things, has highlighting, and is more than enough when you just need a quick fix.

I am also still using nano when editing stuff in the terminal. Please, don't judge me.

[–] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

To be fair, Kate isn't just a text editor, it actually is an IDE. The text editor version would be kwrite, which would be horrible to program in.

[–] AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 10 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Wow, you're right of course. I completely forgot kwrite still existed, tbh.

[–] KaninchenSpeed@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Kwrite doesnt really exist on its own anymore. Its a slimmed down gui for kate now.

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[–] SatyrSack@feddit.org 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

KWrite is the standard text editor. Kate is the advanced one. The name actually literally stands for "KDE Advanced Text Editor"

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not aware of distros preinstalling KWrite, though...?

[–] SatyrSack@feddit.org 2 points 59 minutes ago

Huh, I did not know that any didn't. I just tried a bunch, and here is a quick breakdown of what was preinstalled on each:

distro Kate kwrite
Fedora false true
KDE Neon true false
Kubuntu true false
Manjaro true true
SteamOS true true
[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 15 points 8 hours ago

We're almost like coding siblings lol

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[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 15 points 6 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com 3 points 3 hours ago

This feels a little bit like Brainfuck tbh.

For what it’s worth, I can think of one thing that would make brainfuck even worse: Instead of using 8 arbitrary characters (it only uses > < + - . , ] and [ for every instruction) for the coding, use the 8 most common letters of the alphabet. Since it ignores all other characters, all of your comments would need to be done without those 8 letters.

For example, “Hello World” in brainfuck is the following:

++++++++[>++++[>++>+++>+++>+<<<<-]>+>+>->>+[<]<-]>>.>---.+++++++..+++.>>.<-.<.+++.------.--------.>>+.>++.

If we instead transposed those 8 instructions onto the 8 most common letters of the alphabet, it would look more like this:

eeeeeeeeaneeeeaneeneeeneeenesssstonenentnneasostonnIntttIeeeeeeeIIeeeInnIstIsIeeeIttttttIttttttttInneIneeI
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[–] TokenEffort@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 hours ago

Winks in Notepad ;)

[–] TinyRhino@lemm.ee 19 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

If you're not writing it all down on paper and then punching holes in cards, you're doing it all wrong

[–] Krelis_@lemmy.world 1 points 49 minutes ago* (last edited 49 minutes ago)

All you need is a magnetised needle and a steady hand. Or butterflies.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 20 points 7 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Rogue@feddit.uk 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Nano is fine. But Micro is a worthwhile upgrade: https://micro-editor.github.io/

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

I started with Pico. ;)

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 hours ago

Nano is love.

[–] Gloria@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Sublime! There are DOZENS of us! Dozens!

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