I regret nothing. Say what you want.

Edit: I just saw the two typos. If you find them, you’re welcome to keep them.

  • @Adalast@lemmy.world
    0•2 months ago

    I used Notepad++ for virtually all coding I did (Python, JS, various Markup Languages, Action Script back in the day, etc) for a couple decades. The only reason I use VSCode now is because I inherited a nightmare of a legacy spaghetti bowl and needed the function tracing to attempt to figure out anything. I still prefer N++ for most small projects.

  • @vfscanf@discuss.tchncs.de
    0•2 months ago

    Gedit was my main text editor for years. I also used it for work. It has all the basic features that you need for coding. For everything else I use the terminal.

    • @veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world
      0•2 months ago

      This is such a waste of time to the point where it infuriates me. I know the standard answer is “why not?”, but it’s just cringe to, like you are trying too hard to purposely be stupid, whereas with standard text editor you can say already they cba’ed to install anything so it was a case of initial setup vs. long term productivity.

    • @Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com
      0•2 months ago

      This feels a little bit like Brainfuck tbh.

      For what it’s worth, I can think of one thing that would make brainfuck even worse: Instead of using 8 arbitrary characters (it only uses > < + - . , ] and [ for every instruction) for the coding, use the 8 most common letters of the alphabet. Since it ignores all other characters, all of your comments would need to be done without those 8 letters.

      For example, “Hello World” in brainfuck is the following:

      ++++++++[>++++[>++>+++>+++>+<<<<-]>+>+>->>+[<]<-]>>.>---.+++++++..+++.>>.<-.<.+++.------.--------.>>+.>++.

      If we instead transposed those 8 instructions onto the 8 most common letters of the alphabet, it would look more like this:

      eeeeeeeeaneeeeaneeneeeneeenesssstonenentnneasostonnIntttIeeeeeeeIIeeeInnIstIsIeeeIttttttIttttttttInneIneeI
    • Rikudou_SageEnglish
      0•2 months ago

      Pff, real programmers use butterflies. We open our hands and let the delicate wings flap once. The disturbance ripples outward, changing the flow of the eddy currents in the upper atmosphere. These cause momentary pockets of higher-pressure air to form, which acts as lenses that deflect incoming cosmic rays, focusing them to strike the drive platter and flip the desired bit.

    • @zod000@lemmy.ml
      0•2 months ago

      Oh, I remember ed! He’s the talking horse from that old black and white show, right?

      • Pumpkin EscobarEnglish
        0•2 months ago

        No one can code with a horse, of course. That is of course, unless the horse is the famous mr Ed.

        • @zod000@lemmy.ml
          0•2 months ago

          Perfect! Though we shouldn’t give Netflix and co any ideas on more classics to dredge up and ruin.

          • Radioactive ButtholeEnglish
            0•2 months ago

            It is a text editor from the 50s or 60s, so right off the nat you aren’t getting a product you’re at all familiar with. Its been a while since I cracked it open but from memory you can only view one line of code at a time. You have to specify the line of code that you want to view, the commands are esoteric, and there is no help available in the application itself. As I recall it was pretty much immediately replaced with better editors, such as og vi.

            Its sort of like programming in sed. Sure, you can, but why?

            From Wikipedia:

            Known for its terseness, ed, compatible with teletype terminals like Teletype Model 33, gives almost no visual feedback, and has been called (by Peter H. Salus) “the most user-hostile editor ever created”, even when compared to the contemporary (and notoriously complex) TECO. For example, the message that ed will produce in case of error, and when it wants to make sure the user wishes to quit without saving, is “?”. It does not report the current filename or line number, or even display the results of a change to the text, unless requested. Older versions (c. 1981) did not even ask for confirmation when a quit command was issued without the user saving changes.

            https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_(software)

  • blaue_Fledermaus
    0•2 months ago

    Code in MS Word because it handles tabs correctly, unlike all code editors.

    Tab means “move to the next tabstop”, not “advance a fixed amount”.

    (I don’t do it, I’m not THAT insane)

    • ValiantDust
      0•2 months ago

      Me: hits return.

      Word: “Sure, here, a new line. I already indented it for you, same as the one before. Like a good IDE.”

      Me: “That’s nice of you, Word, but I want this one to be indented one tab stop less than the line before.” Hits delete.

      Word: “Delete, you say? Sure, back to the line before.”

      Me: “No, no! Just delete one tab! Maybe, if I select the line and hit dele…”

      Word: “Why of course!”

      Me: “Shit, it’s gone. Undo! Hmm… Move the thingy here on top?”

      Word: “Move all the lines you say? No problem!”

      Me: “Nvm, I’ll just indent everything by hand with spaces.”

  • unalivejoyEnglish
    0•2 months ago

    text editor application that came with Ubuntu

    nano

    shivers

  • Arthur BesseEnglish
    0•2 months ago

    if you’ve never used ed(1) technically it’s illegal for you to say “it’s a UNIX system, i know this”