What os? What ide? What plug-ins?
Windows + Visual Studio :(
I try so hard to move away from this but I seem to always end up crawling back because something is missing or broken. DotRush is hopeful, though (assuming C#)
I use codium. It’s basically VS code without all the proprietary and spooky telemetry. Works well as vscode
Unfortunately, the alternatives are really lacking. JetBrains Rider REALLY feels underbaked. No deal-breaking issues, but lots of little low-impact ones, and lots of design decisions that go against common conventions, for no apparent reason. The “Visual Studio Mode” doesn’t really help.
On top of that, I’ve had several issues with RUNNING Rider, on account of being on Bazzite, an immutable distro. It was fine on Mint, but Mint had its own troubles with my NVidia card.
Visual Studio also feels really urderbaked IMO. I had my issues with navigation, UI and Vim mode. Debugger experience with Edit and Continue was pretty amazing though.
OS: Debian (Trixie)
DE: KDE Plasma
I use vim for light edits. Currently using VSCodium, but am slowly trying out Kate. I use codeberg as Version Control, and Konsole as the terminal.
I also have notepadqq (a native alternative to notepad++), but prefer vim and am also trying to switch to Kate.
Gentoo, Neovim.
I should switch to Helix, if I ever find the time.
- Arch Linux (btw.)
- hyprland
- helix
- kitty
- LibreWolf (for research)
I have the same setup as u except I use kde plasma bc hyprland is scary. Happy updating.
Hmmm…ill have to do some research as I don’t know most of those
Arch is a linux distribution
Hyperland tiles the windows (so they fill up the screen instead of floating)
Helix is a text editor
Kitty is a terminal / console
LibreWolf is a Firefox version
Helix is the only part that really answers your question. https://helix-editor.com/
That’s what I use too.
Debian at home, Rocky Linux at work
VSCodium or Godot depending on what I’m working on.
Whatever language support via LSP is available for VSCodium, Prettier, I’ll have to check the rest. Nothing that drastically changes the experience. Basically whatever does auto formatting, code completion(without using “AI”), and error highlighting.
Are your projects in c#/dotnet?
Mostly python, shell, and GDscript these days.
I did C#/.NET stuff for a few years for $dayjob, but that was all on windows with visual studio
I see, do you think C#/dotnet is still going to be relevant? It seems like they keep getting better behind the scene and have matured to be more than just windows java. I have fallen off programming and am looking to give myself a project to get back. I was thinking of learning dotnet and using avelonia to make some guis.
I think C#/dotnet will be relevant on windows for a long time. Personally I’m done with that platform though. Dotnet being free and open source software is great though. There are some fantastic cross platform projects out there written in it, such as Jellyfin.
Windows 11
Notepad (new)
Co-pilot
ChatGPT Agent to prompt copilot for me.
(This is a joke)
You laugh, at my last job for certain stuff I had to program in windows 10 and word.
They didn’t have source control so they did manual code reviews using the “track changes” feature in word.
The code reviews were pointless though as I was the only one who knew the language it was written in (g-code with proprietary additions by the system vendor)
no. you’re trash.




