I started with TeXworks (+ XeTeX, which both happen to have been created by Jonathan Kew) and I found no reason to change since then. The only slight drawback is that autocomplete support exists but is rudimentary, however it doesn’t bother me that much.
Which editor do you prefer?
VS Code with the LaTeX workshop plugin. Works like a charm. You need to have LaTeX installed in your system
Overleaf, because I don’t have to download an application.
Vim + TeX Live on Gentoo
Neovim with vimtex and texlab language server. Learning nvim takes some time, but I made preconfig, which allows to start a bit easier
Nvim. autopair.nvim let’s you autoclose “begin[]” macros. Luasnip let’s you create custom snippets for every macro you use. I also use Emmet LSP for inline svg.
MiKTeX, because it’s the first one I stumbled upon in high school and I don’t use LaTeX enough to be bothered to optimize my choice of editor.
neovim+zathura+lualatex
TexStudio, the multi view and jump to source/output is great on big projects. Zotero macro is very helpful. Compile/clean buttons that also work on multi file projects are huge time savers.
TeXStudio for the convenience of compiling and managing multi-file projects; (neo)vim for serious work with the tex files.
emacs
I myself use TeXStudio with a texlive-full install. I may switch to something else, but currently it is a convenient setup.
Usually Neovim and
:!tectonic main.tex
, nothing fancy. For preview ideally Zathura or Preview on Mac.Also VSCode is quite usable, since there are some pdf preview plugins.