anyone know of any free programming editors other than Atom?

I heard that they stopped updating it or something?

I mean, maybe you can still technically use it, I dunno...
but I want to tinker with something that they're still updating...

any suggestions?

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NerdyPotato ·

Notepad++ offers quite a lot for most languages for small projects. For larger projects you may want something more complex though.

Fishy · 36-40, F

@NerdyPotato You know of anything more complex?

I mean... I'm starting small... but it's good to know for future reference lol 😅

NerdyPotato ·

@Fishy it depends on the language you're using. PhpStorm is useful for PHP and InteliJ is good for Java. Where Notepad++ is fine for editing individual files, those "understand" entire projects and offer a lot of cross-file context suggestions and debugging. That's pretty much the only languages in familiar with, but I'd recommend any language specific IDE over any mere text editor for any project containing more than a handful of files.

If you're just starting out, Eclipse is a good one too. It's not as good as paid ones for a specific language, but offers a whole lot more than editors that only analyse a single file.

Elessar · 31-35, M

@NerdyPotato N++, Atom, VSCode are editors. IntelliJ, Eclipse (idk if anyone uses this anymore), PHPStorm (not 100% sure about the latter) are IDEs.

N++ is pretty masochistic to be used for anything more complex than changing a line or two in a random file. Programming in it (and viceversa, using a full IDE for some random file modifications) is kinda the computer equivalent of using an angle grinder to cut pastry. It will do it but it's messy and not the right tool