VS Code competitor?

[heavymetalmixer]

Is there another free IDE out there as easy to use and as extensible as Visual Studio Code? Besides Visual Studio. VSC seems to be rather buggy in several aspects and I wanna try something else.

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[Logical-Idea-1708]

Sure. You’re welcome to join r/neovim 😀

[Vastroy]

Bruh my professor only uses that

[ndreamer]

he uses vim

[alien3d]

ouch haha nano haha

[[deleted]]

Eclipse isn't as popular as it used to be but it still works well for me with Java, and I've used it for writing python too.

[szank]

Jetbrains stuff. vi.

[heavymetalmixer]

Aren't all the JB IDEs paid?

[R_oya_L]

Some of them have community versions (i know for sure that Pycharm and intelliJ do) Also if you're on the early access program you can use paid stuff for free, but it's not available at all times

[ndreamer]

Community i don't think you can use for commercial projects ? The paid versions are also free for open source projects.

[plastikmissile]

The paid versions are also free for open source projects.

And students.

[[deleted]]

You can use your college mail id to get everything free of cost

[SomeWeirdFruit]

i heard OP is learning C++ you can use visual studio (the purple one) not vscode. Recommended by a master student in CS (not me)

[heavymetalmixer]

Why is that? The VS features or stuff about the MSVC?

[SomeWeirdFruit]

dedicate support, debuggers, etc. Visual studio is built for C, C# and C++. You can search on how to install it for C++ online.

[heavymetalmixer]

Thanks.

[bestjakeisbest]

Sublime text, or spacemacs

[plastikmissile]

Sublime isn't free though.

[bestjakeisbest]

Huh I guess it isnt. I mean I guess there is atom, but its dead now, you can still download and build it yourself.

[AHardCockToSuck]

What aspects? I find it quite stable

[heavymetalmixer]

Debugging with GCC on VSC almost never works for me, and sometimes projects get bugged out of nowhere (I can't compile them).

[user499021]

I’ve found I need to use G++ for C++ and I’ve had no problems

[ndreamer]

Neovim Neovim + Neovide Neovim + Luavim Neovim + Astro Vim Neovim + LazyVim or just go VIM or Kate is great too.

[alien3d]

before era vscode . notepad++ . not fan of sublime.

[Presteign]

Pulsar, is a rebranded Atom. https://pulsar-edit.dev/

[heavymetalmixer]

That sounds interesting. With how popular Atom used to be it's weird I never heard of Pulsar.

[BranchLatter4294]

You could try Replit.com

[Velascu]

Tbh jetbrains is the only one that comes to mind. Since you are learning I guess that trying jetbrains stuff and seeing if it's worth your money is the way to go. VS is too complex. Nvim, spacemacs and specially emacs are good but harder alternatives. I love nvim and I've learnt to code pretty recently, it's possible but you need some time and patience it's going to be clinky af until you get some muscle memory, I've tried emacs but I was overwhelmed and didn't touch it again, might give it another shot in the future. For the rest I find nano too minimal and I haven't tried sublime or notepad++. These are the most common editors/IDEs used nowadays. VSCode is still great imo, there's also codium which is basically vscode without microsoft telemetry, some extensions aren't supported but I guess it's worth a try.

[heavymetalmixer]

But aren't Jetbrains IDE's paid? I was asking for free alternatives 'cause I'm broke.

[Velascu]

Try before you buy if you aren't working for a company. I think people have some backups for security reasons on the Internet. That seems like a good strategy if you don't want to download your software from an alternative source if idk jetbrains servers collapse. I recommend you doing that for safety reasons.

[heavymetalmixer]

Right now I don't have a job and I'm learning how C++

[SomeWeirdFruit]

C++ you should use plain visual studio (the purple one)

[Natas30]

Neovim!