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Hey everyone!

I was just wondering why one would use any of the programs I mentioned above instead of VS Code to write Code.

Can someone give me a brief overview of the advantages?

Thanks in advance!

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[โ€“] takeda@kbin.social 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

They work in terminal. To me a more interesting question would be, why VSCode over PyCharm for Python for example.

[โ€“] jayrhacker@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

+1: ed/vi/vim is on every system with a shell, if you can ssh into it, you can edit files using those tools, it's worth knowing them.

Nano is adorable, and EMACS is notoriously huge, both in capabilities and learning curve.