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?

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[–] kool_newt@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

For anyone that used Atom, check out

https://pulsar-edit.dev/

Fuck microsoft

[–] Daeraxa@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

As one of the Pulsar team, thanks for the support! Always nice to see it being recommended on these kinds of threads.

[–] dot20@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would suggest adding some screenshots to your website

[–] Daeraxa@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

We are going through a bit of a rework for the website and docs site as a whole but yeah, I agree that we should have some.

[–] kool_newt@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Oh nice! I was super excited to find your project, was not about to let MS drive me into their arms and couldn't find anything else that met my needs.

Thanks for your work!

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there support for serving it out to a browser similar to vscode.dev? I've been looking into having something like that, and I didn't find anything that was similar.

[–] Daeraxa@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

No, it would require an awful lot of development, there are quite a few native modules. For a browser ide i would check out phcode.dev which is a development of Adobe's brackets editor.

[–] NaoPb@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks. I remember a while ago I was looking at Atom and Brackets. But I see both of those have been put down. At least the linux version has as far as the latter is concerned.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Atom was really glitchy for me when I tried it a few years ago. Has it improved?

[–] kool_newt@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I've used Atom for years and rarely had issues. Maybe a specific plugin was causing you a problem? Either way, I'd say give Pulsar a try if you like that type of interface.