[baby]

I think it's just that everybody has been looking for THE editor, and so it is natural that people would develop their own. I think what we're seeing is that VSCode is becoming THE editor (if it's not already there). At this point it's hard to compete. I think the biggest contender is IntelliJ, as many people really seem to enjoy it, but I would predict that it's going to be hard to fight against free.

[pandemic_region]

Is anybody else finding Intellij more and more getting in the way in an obtrusive manner? Code completion suggestions are getting worse, formatting ability is basically none existent if your statement is missing a comma or a lambda, it keeps reindexing my local maven repo, code completions are slow to appear... I was a huge fan of their products but now I'm getting more and more annoyed. Maybe I'm getting old?

Several times I have been on the brink of trying out spacevim for java development , out of pure frustration but the amount of config and tweaking needed scares me. I don't need much, lightning fast auto complete, auto import and Google code formatter integration. One of these weekends I'll bite the bullet I think and set it all up.

[WuxiFingerHold]

I noticed that a couple of years ago. 10 years ago or so, Jetbrains was the gold standard. Then support and quality started to rot. Issues not resolved for years, esp. for Webstorm. Instead building new products and features I was not interested in. I needed proper tailwind support back then, not some cloud colab solution for enterprises.

[FpUser]

Not sure about how Jetbrains does in general but I have zero hesitation paying for perpetual license of their all inclusive package. It is peanuts compared to value. I still use VS code to do some remote editing / debugging as it is somewhat better experience. Hopefully Jetbrains catches up in this department one day.

So yes. These two are THE editors for me.

I only deviate from these when I need to do Delphi / Freepascal development.

Notepad++ / Notepadqq are being used as in place hotkey invoked text editors.

I still try new ones out of curiosity but I have hard time understanding why any would succeed. How they're going to get the same amount of extensions / plugins in order to match functionality?

[jlengrand]

Not that I disagree, but IntelliJ has a free version, and they're building up Fleet as an attempt to compete. Future will tell.

[FireBeyond]

I had such high hopes for Sublime Text, but then development slowed to what seemed like a glacial pace, with every upgrade requiring another licensing fee.

[andrepd]

I'm happy with it even with "slow updates". What features are you looking forward to?