The situation now is:
* Sublime for the Williamsburg corpo-hipsters
* emacs and vim for the wizards and furries
* VSCode for all the normies who just want to get on with doing their job and don't feel a need to express their identity or politics through choice of editor
* WebStorm for the chads with the monster rigs to run it
It's also noticeably slower than Sublime, which makes switching hard.
But "Williamsburg corpo-hipster" feels off the mark. To me Sublime aligns more around the "JS minimalist" camp, which overlaps a lot with the "bootstrapped and profitable" crowd.
I mean, just that phrase sounds very "Williamsburg corpo-hipster" to me. Minimal, artisan javascript.
Apple would try to switch everything towards their walked garden, no questions asked. Google would shut stuff down every two years. Oracle... I'm not even going to bother.
Amazon and Facebook could be interesting. Facebook is a bit shady, see the Oculus Facebook account debacle, but they're decent as stewards of dev tools. Amazon is also quite reliable for dev tools.
Would anyone really big be a better steward? Did I miss someone?
Facebook/meta seems horrifying. Some of their tools are indeed great, but I can just imagine having to use a facebook login to push code to GitHub or to download VSCode plugins.
Amazon is problematic for similar reasons as MS: since they are one of the biggest application hosts out there, bad incentives exist in terms of potentially allowing biases in their tooling to preference their own platform.
Right now I am using a very stripped down VSCode, which is.. fine. It works. I don't love it but it gets the job done usually.
Any other good editors on the minimal side? I need a bit more than vim/emacs, but I don't want or care for autocompletion or anything that alters what I have written. I don't need vcs support. I don't need a built in terminal. Just a good, simple and fast code editing experience with modern ergonomics and syntax highlighting that works across every language.
Seems like just another kind of identity: The self-titled "normie" who glances over at the "corpo-hipsters" and "wizards and furries" and smugly pats themselves on the back about how they're so much better because, unlike everyone else, they just want to "get on with doing their job"...
This entire time I thought I used Sublime because it was a fast enough, full of features, battle tested editor, that also wasn't a bloated IDE nor an exercise in self flagellation (i.e. choosing to use an command line editor with a high learning curve like Vim or Emacs).
The conflict between Catholics and protestants in northern Ireland is not actually about subtle differences in religious doctrine.
I have to say that I built so much muscle memory in those years that it is kinda hard to realized I'm not using Vim, and there is always something not-quite-like-vim in VSCode-vim that usually gets in my way.
(To be honest, the only editor that I found that is really close to Vim without being a Vim-thing was GNOME Builder.)
I'm pretty sure Sublime has a plugin that uses an actual NeoVim instance to process all inputs with all your configuration. Never tried it, I don't use Sublime. But I can confirm the feature works well in Firefox via FireNvim.
…respectively? TIL I’m a furry.
