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FOSS alternative to VSCode/VSCodium for LAMP/LNMP dev (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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Hey everyone. I've been a Linux user since 2008, and have kept myself solidly within FOSS or GNU/Libre software for a really long time. Not to be a total walking stereotype, I am fundamentally against Microsoft for a multitude of reasons, and I wanted to see if anyone out there has moved onto something different as well. VSCode is a juggernaut in terms of what it can do for developer workflows thanks to the insane plugin community, so I know I'll need to adjust to a new workflow to a certain degree.

I develop in Laravel and some Symfony, MariaDB and PGSQL, Vue3 and Tailwind. Testing, static analysis, and linting suites are ran on the command line, so that's not an issue. I don't use AI in any capacity of my life, so that's also not a requirement. If I could find something that offers a "run this cli command on file saving", that's really about the biggest requirement I hope to have in place.

I tried KDevelop with PHP support, but that IDE feels very much geared towards KDE development first and foremost. I gave Netbeans a shot last year, and I couldn't quite get my groove going after a couple weeks. Every couple of years I keep checking in on editors like Netbeans or Sublime... but I feel like I'm not aware of other options.

Suggestions are welcome. Thanks!

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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If I could find something that offers a “run this cli command on file saving”, that’s really about the biggest requirement I hope to have in place.

You can do that via CLI, too, by the way. You can watch your source code directory for file changes with entr: https://manpages.org/entr
Make sure to see the examples at the end of the man page, since usage isn't entirely obvious...

And if you want KDevelop without being so focused on KDE development, then that's basically Kate: https://kate-editor.org/
If you install the LSP servers for your toolchain (and check that Kate auto-starts them), then it can assist pretty well for different programming languages (i.e. virtually indistinguishable from VSCode, as far as I'm aware).

[–] dissentiate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks for this. I'm on KDE, and I have to admit that I never took the time to look into Kate for anything outside of editing random text files. So, I've now jumped in and will be test driving this for a few weeks to see if I can make the switch.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 13 hours ago

Yeah, they sneakily added LSP support a while ago and that brought it up to almost the level of a full-fledged IDE. I've been using it for all my personal projects since then and been quite happy with it. It does have some rough edges here and there, but that it's a lightweight editor that feels native on KDE more than makes up for it IMHO.