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I've been making more and more use of VS Code lately as well, although I wish you could set up proper projects rather than have an open folder all the time.
 
Rainbow said:
what kinda stuff do you do omi? web dev?
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Yeah, I've been doing mostly web dev and some programming in c for personal projects and some Python and Java for school as well.
 
I've used Sublime for a while but ditched it a couple months ago. Instead I've returned to good old Vim. Well, NeoVim, because everyone and their mother says it's better. Don't know, though. I'm certainly not impressed by it. In general it feels rather...unpolished.
 
I also like Atom personally, it was the first editor I used. It's simple, it gets the job done, and most importantly, there's nothing about it that annoys me lol I don't remember which other editors I've tried, but I've always gone back to Atom fairly quickly. There's definitely something to be said for familiarity.
 
Do you have a particular favorite fee code editor that you use? Since Atom is free to use or is it still the best despite there being no paywall?
 
Rainbow said:
vscode > atom
atom was so frustrating to me when i had to use it for school... stop opening with a million welcome tabs and then lagging out
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You can turn the welcome tabs off... I've never had problems with lag in Atom (though if you had to use it on school computers... well, I always have a problem with lag on school computers no matter what software I'm using lol)
 
Well visual studio code was developed directly by microsoft itself, as opposed to Atom which was worked on by one of its subsidiaries GitHub. Whether that is indicative of anything to anyone else probably not, but it might have something to do with individual preference.
 
I think Atom is the more beginner friendly of the two. Although I would also imagine that most coders end up using both frequently.
 
Did you know that pragmatism is a recursive problem?

You have a problem you want to solve. You solve it in a pragmatic way (least amount of effort, but still correct result). Later on you find yourself solving a problem. This problem is special, because it only exists because of the way you solved the previous problem. How do you solve that new problem? Pragmatically, of course!

I think this describes business code pretty well, don't you think? :P
 
So I ended up finding an SQL injection vulnerability on my site today. Guess I'll be busy working on patching that...
 
So I've been getting into a language called Crystal lately. It's inspired by Ruby (my fav language) but compiles to an executable like C. It's WAY faster and has a pretty smart type system, so it's pretty much become my designated "side project language" for things big enough that I actually want types.

I just wish the tooling around it was better. I'd love for VSCode to support it the way it does Typescript, with the type hinting and autocompletion and in-editor type errors. Right now I don't think anything for that exists, which makes it a lot harder to work with.
 
Dark Zeta said:
I was wondering when you would find out about Crystal. Glad to see you like it.
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Oh I've known about it for a while now
Just never really had many opportunities to use until recently
 
Has anyone here used rust??? I decided to try it out on a whim this week to see what all the fuss is about and wowie it's so cool.
Been following some tutorials, I made a simple web server that lets you upload and view files and I'm about to learn how to make the game of life~
 
Life update: I made the game of life from one of the tutorials and did some of the challenges, I am so into this
I really want to try the Rocket web framework for some personal project after reading the docs
 
So I'm thinking about trying Android app development again, but I think I'm going to take a new approach of using some open source software. Mostly because another project I am also doing I did the same thing and suddenly it became A TON easier.

Anyone have any projects they're looking to do in the new year?
 
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