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What do you use now and what is your primary use case?

I have been using Zed lately and quite liking it. I used Jetbrains for years, but it's gotten absurdly buggy lately so I probably won't renew it. I have also used vscode and I need to use it at work, and it's fine, but I prefer Zed (fewer bugs, faster, mainly).

I use jetbrains editors, but mostly goland which might be more stable then others

I recently tried zed but it ddos’d my nas over an smb share lol

I always advocate for the "boomer" editors when possible. It doesn't matter which one you choose. People can say what they want about them, but very little software survives almost 60 years. I sure as Hell hope VS Code doesn't.

At some point, esoteric UIs may have been needed in the 70s, but that ship has long sailed. I don't need to give myself carpal tunnel syndrome trying to quit vim. If anything, a lot of that is also a problem that continues to plague software to this day: devs who go "well if it works for me, it's good enough for anybody, and if you don't like it, you must not be a Real Developer!"

Learning and using vim keybindings was one of the crucial things that mitigated my RSI.

Ergonomics are highly variable, so it might not help someone else, but for me it did the opposite of "give me carpal tunnel syndrome."

For me, boomer editors (mostly nvim to be honest) join a long list of other things like tiling window managers as something I genuinely want to learn, but that I can never justify learning over either learning something else or doing "real work". I've been slowly introducing both and making gradual progress, but its extremely slow

Gradual progress is still progress.

Just pick a specific task that you do routinely (say markdown editing) and just use neovim for that one task - eat the elephant one bite at a time and markdown is generally small enough/light enough that you won't get out into the weeds trying to make neovim the perfect IDE in the process.

neovim, general text editing/small scripts/markdown where the task is short/light enough I just want to do it and keep moving.

Intellij for basically all software development that is more than 2 minutes.

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