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?
I’ve been keeping a list of alternatives for a while now that I really like:
Then for terminal based editors I really like Helix which is vim-like but uses a selection -> action model (like Kakoune). I really like it because it requires almost no configuration.
Playing around with lite-xl, thanks for the recommendation. Lacks many features for now, but seems to have a huge potential.
I see a lot of potential in Lapce, but sadly the extensions (which are necessary, since it has basically no ootb language support) are very poorly maintained and outdated. Last I used it the Javascript/Typescript support was simply not sufficient for active use. I am very hopeful for Lapce’s future though!
Edit: Just checked and the TS/JS extension is still on version
2022.11.0
. The code formatting still doesn’t work (for me) :(Thanks for your work on Pulsar. Atom was my go to simple editor before MS killed it off. I’m still fuming now. I really need to try Pulsar :). Been using Kate for now.
Lite-XL looks really cool, it’s awesome to finally find a modern editor that is not using webview bloat for the UI.
lite-xl looks promising
the main missing feature imho : being able to search/filter settings, keybindings in particular