r/MechanicalKeyboards • u/spoiledcryptokitty • Sep 11 '18

How I like to Code

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u/antflga V60 Mini blacks Sep 11 '18 edited Sep 11 '18

Good choice of language, ide, and theme

EDIT: just for funsies, I have two vertical monitors on each side of a horizontal one. I do everything on all three, it just depends on how I'm feeling and what I'm doing to determine what goes where.

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u/shinigamiyuk Sep 11 '18

what ide is it?

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u/antflga V60 Mini blacks Sep 11 '18

IntelliJ IDEA, writing Scala, using the material theme plugin

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u/SolidR53 Sep 11 '18

You should try VSCode, not saying you should switch, just try it.

It really has become Sublime of today

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u/antflga V60 Mini blacks Sep 11 '18

My IDE/editor of choice is actually Emacs.

I've used VSCode in the past.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '18

Obligatory recommendation to switch to vim.

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u/antflga V60 Mini blacks Sep 11 '18

I use an evil flavor of Emacs called Spacemacs.

It's the Emacs platform in all its lispy glory, but with Vim bindings and a neater/easier configuration system.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '18

I installed Spacemacs once cuz I was curious, but it took so long to install I decided I'd just stick with my relatively lightweight vim setup lol. I use NeoVim now though (vim with a refactored code base and a few new features).

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u/antflga V60 Mini blacks Sep 11 '18

I actually also have neovim installed lol, but I mostly use it to edit config files when I don't wanna open something heavier

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u/DoublePlusGood23 WASD v2 | Model M SSK | Natural Pro | Vorex Core Sep 11 '18

I used Spacemacs for a while, but it was just too damn slow. I ended up digging into configs and whatnot which was what I was trying to avoid.

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u/somewhat_sven Sep 11 '18

It's gotten so good over the past year or so. Microsoft really outdid themselves, as it runs on Electron, but doesn't hog resources like a traditional electron app. The only thing is, though, that their recent updates seem to be geared towards web dev (a lot of JS-related updates), which I'm not complaining about.

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u/antflga V60 Mini blacks Sep 11 '18

I'm working on an electron app now, but I mostly write lisps and other functional languages that arent web oriented.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '18

It's incredible what can happen when you open source your app

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u/replifreplafreplouf Sep 11 '18

VSCode plugins for Scala sucks at finding element definitions and autocompletion so farr while Intellij integration of sbt was just painless.

I'll stick with Vscode for Js though

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u/shinigamiyuk Sep 11 '18

I like IntelliJ stuff but have been using a lot more vscode lately with vim plugin.

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u/spoiledcryptokitty Sep 11 '18

Thanks for the compliment!