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The best code editor is....

dennisedson — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 18:54:39 GMT

I tried to make that subject click-baity 🙂

I am getting to be an old man and I remember learning about text-wrangler. Remember that text editor?? Remember...Dreamweaver 😬

Kids these days are spoiled with all the options.

Here are the questions

Which code editor do you believe is the best?
Why is it the best?

I will be grading this exam so take your time and answer correctly 😉

Re: The best code editor is....

stefen — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 15:23:42 GMT

@dennisedson I've always been a Sublime Text user because it's so much faster than VS Code (native code ftw) and still offers all the customizeability. However, recently I made the switch to Nova by Panic. It's more like a full-on IDE with a built-in terminal but without all the slowness those usually put off. It comes with a whole lot of features built-in and also offers a super easy extension system.

My 2 favorite things about Nova:

all server credentials from Transmit are synced here as well—makes working from multiple computers less of a pain
you can set default syntax highlighting per file extension overwriting the default. So, even if you use obscure files like say you have a file called "hubspot.hubl" you can set all ".hubl" files to use the HTML-Twig syntax (one of the syntax extensions that closely matches HubL formatting).

Re: The best code editor is....

Kevin-C — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 13:44:14 GMT

@dennisedson

I'm partial to VSCode with the Atom Dark theme!

@stefen Nova looks interesting! I maybe trying that out today.

Re: The best code editor is....

dennisedson — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 12:57:18 GMT

😍

How long has Nova been out? I feel like I received a notification of it being in development a year ago....or 5. I have always been a fan of anything Panic built!

It is like a slap in the face when I am forced to use Filezilla instead of Transmit

Re: The best code editor is....

dennisedson — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 12:58:51 GMT

Themes! I love themes! I love walking to someone's workstation (a long time ago, I worked in the same building as other humans) and seeing what theme they were using. For their code editor and terminal!

Re: The best code editor is....

Kevin-C — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 14:52:59 GMT

Recently learned about Hyper terminal from one of Dr. Angela Yu's courses. I've not used it but it seems to be getting popular!

Re: The best code editor is....

Chris-M — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 15:28:00 GMT

I'm part of the Visual Studio Code fraction... i've used Sublime for a long time. One day a college introduced me to VSCode and since then i'm rocking it 😃

Re: The best code editor is....

dennisedson — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 15:41:40 GMT

a: hyper looks super cool. I have been using iTerm2 for years.

b: I had never heard of this Dr. Angela Yu.

Re: The best code editor is....

prosa — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 17:39:41 GMT

for me is intellij IDEA. this topic depends on the lang you are using.

Re: The best code editor is....

dennisedson — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 17:57:14 GMT

@prosa you are 1000 percent correct on the language business 🙂

Also, are you a java developer?

Re: The best code editor is....

prosa — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 18:33:29 GMT

I've code in many languages. Now I'm experimenting in automation using tools like Power Automate. My Favorite frameworks to build applications are Laravel( PHP ) combined with vuejs( front-end-framework ). But, you can use IDEA for almost anything.

Re: The best code editor is....

ScottD22 — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 07:14:06 GMT

Been a long time Atom user and recently switched to VS Code. Can't say I miss Atom, vs code has a built in terminal and it doesn't seem to crash unlike Atom.

Re: The best code editor is....

bws9000 — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 15:12:35 GMT

I believe the best editor is the editor that works for you. Sometimes you need a few different editors. I like VS Code, WebStorm still love notepad, VIM if you're in a terminal. 👍

Re: The best code editor is....

dennisedson — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 18:50:20 GMT

@bws9000 , totally agree!

My preferred method of using VIM is to open the terminal panel in VS Code and fire it up 🤣

Re: The best code editor is....

bws9000 — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 19:50:37 GMT

@dennisedson i know what u mean

Re: The best code editor is....

webdew — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 11:37:59 GMT

Hey!

The best code editor for HubSpot are :

1. VS code
2. Sublime

I believe you should try it!

Re: The best code editor is....

Vicka — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 09:00:48 GMT

I discovered and loved Jetbrains IDEs for PHP and starting now with HubSpot development I use WebStorm, which is gorgeous for API calls too with http files, so what a joy it would be to get a code completion addon for WebStorm as it exists for VScode. :))

I saw on Github that somebody did it but link is broken 😞