• MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world
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    15 hours 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
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      15 hours ago

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

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        15 hours ago

        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.

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          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

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            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.