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Poll: Which IDE/text editor do you use?

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Re: Poll: Which IDE/text editor do you use?

#21
Emacs, because of Lisp. Vimscript is a bad language, Lua is a decent language, but if you need a editor/language that can be used to modify itself, there is nothing like Lisp.

I used to love vim, but it's just an editor and sometimes I want more. I decided it is worth my time to invest in a tool that has existed for decades and will be around for decades.

The dream honestly is Emacs to be replaced by another modern and streamlined editor, that is still as extensible and lispy as Emacs. The current iteration is weird and idiosyncratic, but the foundations it is built upon are timeless and way ahead than any other programmer's editor.

Re: Poll: Which IDE/text editor do you use?

#22
PHPStorm cause I'm retro cool. I tried VSCode, but it takes more time to set up for PHP and doesn't do some things quite as well. For example, the interface for traversing classes or finding references is a little less refined than in PHPStorm. Perhaps more tricks are available and I could get used to different things, but I have no complaints.
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