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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 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Well, if we're already posting all the new Rust-based editors, then we're still missing Helix: https://helix-editor.com/

Unlike the other two, it's community-developed, but it being terminal-based might not fit everyone's taste...

[–] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 days ago

I started using Helix in the last year and it has been fantastic. I mostly work on embedded systems in C, C++, Rust and some Python. I love having a modal editor that uses select->verb syntax and that actually cares about discoverability.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

I'm Helix only since a couple of years. My dev life is great.