Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?
scheep@lemmy.world 3 days agoyeah, there’s not really any alternatives for Jetbrainsls IDEs. As a non-professional I use VSCodium (VSCode minus MS) but I get why you would be prefer IDEs as a professional.
scheep@lemmy.world 3 days ago
VSCodium works for web development and is okay for Python, but stuff like C/C++ and IDE is super helpful
sith@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Seems you don’t know how to configure your editor/IDE. There is nothing in a “Jetbrains IDE” which you cannot also get in Neovim, Emacs or VS Code. Using only FOSS plugins. Or what functionality are you thinking of?
jj4211@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I don’t know, I mean I’ve seen a fair amount of IDE capability out of VSCode after some invested effort to try to get it there, but at it’s best I haven’t seen it as comprehensive as what I’ve seen in a Jetbrains IDE. That said, in my use case the IDE capabilities don’t apply very well anyway, so it’s moot for me and I’m happy with Kate with LSP.
scheep@lemmy.world 3 days ago
IDEs are kind of plug and play, things like debuggers and compilers come with them making it nice and easy. A code editor requires you to jump through a few hoops by installing plugins and such. You can achieve the same thing with both, but an IDE, as the name suggests, is all integrated.
sith@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Maybe give Doom Emacs a try? Anyway, I thing we can put IDE/Editor the subjective quality bucket.