Published: October 17, 2020
Modified: February 26, 2024
Duration: 1 min
Words: 239
A good code editor is like a good friend. So, choosing a good editor is very important. There are a lot of good code editors available right now. Some are paid and some are free. You need to ask yourself what you're looking for. The simple answer is choose any mainstream editor and start coding.
Some editors are general in a sense that it can be used for any programming language or any kind of editing task. Some others exist only for specific languages.
Let's discuss some general ones.
This is kind of old but still widely in use today, specially in UNIX and Linux community. There are tons of keybindings that will make writing code faster. It's very useful for writing short scripts, configuration files etc.
vimtutor helps you to learning vim interactively.
Do I mean VSCode? Well, it's the same thing, kind of. It is Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code.
It is one of best editors right now in the market. With tons of plugins, themes it has almost anything you need.
It (VSCode) also has an online version https://vscode.dev/
As I heard the most configurable one. I played with it a few times but I didn't have enough time to learn it. Still, as I know if you can customize it, it can do anything.
For more, you can look into these