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Ask HN: Good fast IDE for reading and navigating code in multiple languages

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Post by akkad33 »

With the use AI I find myself writing less and less code, but reading way more than before at work. I have been using IDEA, because in my experience no IDE offers code inspection and navigation as good as IDEA across multiple languages. But it's very slow and mostly geared towards refactoring and editing. I have used VScode and I found it lacking as it is also slow. Nvim is very close to what I want but it takes some getting used to. Which IDE do you use?

Re: Ask HN: Good fast IDE for reading and navigating code in multiple languages

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Post by Alien1Being »

akkad33 wrote: post #3
Alien1Being wrote: post #2

Good, fast, easy for novices. Choose two. I use nvim and emacs.

Nvim is good but requires set up which now I delegate to Claude Emacs feels too slow and not good if you have carpel tunnel syndrome

I am speechless...

Re: Ask HN: Good fast IDE for reading and navigating code in multiple languages

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Post by skydhash »

I use Emacs and ripgrep with the deadgrep plugin[0]. Emacs does have the `rgrep` command but the plugin presents a nicer interface. With no Emacs, I use `ripgrep` (sometimes with fd for the file candidates) and `less`.

I only bother with LSP for projects I'm currently working on. Even then, I sometimes use `project-find-regexp` for whole codebase search.

In Vim, I had the fzf plugin[1] with the command `:RG` bound to fg.

[0] https://github.com/Wilfred/deadgrep

[1]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf.vim

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