as much as i love nvim and understand people who love emacs, there are people who want that big gui thing. for those i’d recommend VSCodium if they feel like they really can’t live without VSCode or Gram for those who got to like Zed.
I was anti GUI for years. Having learnt to program on a tiny green and black 40x24 CRT on my old MSX back in the 80s. I remember being made fun of by fellow students and co workers alike for doing almost everything in the terminal. This included huge projects with complex file trees and lots of files.
But as time went on, I started to appreciate the GUI more and more. And these days I’m all for using a GUI for a lot of things.
Especially in IDEs that can do a lot of things with short keyboard shortcuts. I now have multiple monitors, including a large 32" primary. I always have stacks upon stacks of windows open and manage them efficiently. There’s always at least a couple of terminals hanging out and of course most IDEs also have terminal windows baked in. But all of the extra visual tools help me out a lot.
Almost the exact opposite for me. Used to hog GUIs and hated keyboard shortcuts with a passion, but then I came across Niri, fell in love with the idea, and the whole scrolling window manager thing made my productivity explode. I can’t use traditional desktop environments anymore. Tried to go back and literally can’t.
Emacs
as much as i love nvim and understand people who love emacs, there are people who want that big gui thing. for those i’d recommend VSCodium if they feel like they really can’t live without VSCode or Gram for those who got to like Zed.
I was anti GUI for years. Having learnt to program on a tiny green and black 40x24 CRT on my old MSX back in the 80s. I remember being made fun of by fellow students and co workers alike for doing almost everything in the terminal. This included huge projects with complex file trees and lots of files.
But as time went on, I started to appreciate the GUI more and more. And these days I’m all for using a GUI for a lot of things.
Especially in IDEs that can do a lot of things with short keyboard shortcuts. I now have multiple monitors, including a large 32" primary. I always have stacks upon stacks of windows open and manage them efficiently. There’s always at least a couple of terminals hanging out and of course most IDEs also have terminal windows baked in. But all of the extra visual tools help me out a lot.
Almost the exact opposite for me. Used to hog GUIs and hated keyboard shortcuts with a passion, but then I came across Niri, fell in love with the idea, and the whole scrolling window manager thing made my productivity explode. I can’t use traditional desktop environments anymore. Tried to go back and literally can’t.
Tmux wasn’t that far behind.
I’m a longtime vim user and I use nvim+lazyvim for all my personal stuff these days, but I have to use enterprise managed VS or VSCode for work.