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?

    • Simon WeissEnglish
      33•1 year ago

      This + package to enable VSCode marketplace. The only VSCode features it lacks afaik are out of the box settings sync and remote container development, which colud be substituted with plugins.

      EDIT: also be sure to check out Lapce suggested by Yote.zip - it’s a banger.

      • PolEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        You don’t need that when you use NixOS 😋

    • sprlEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      Any idea how well vscodium runs on macos? Is the performance worde than normal vscode?

      • @[email protected]English
        6•1 year ago

        It’s the same code as VScode, just without telemetry, so probably the same or marginally better

      • @[email protected]English
        3•1 year ago

        I use Codium on both PopOS and MacOSi, it’s a bit slow to start, but performance is good, but I don’t know how it compares to stock VSCode since I never tested it. But overall I’m very happy with it.