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There seem to be a lot of Sublime users here! It is a very handy and intuitive editor. I use Sublime as a general text editor and for coding simple programs in C and Java. For larger programs in C++ and Java, I use Visual Studio and IntelliJ, respectively. When working with C# in Unity, I just use the MonoDevelop IDE that comes with it. I have also on occasion used Vim and Emacs on Linux machines when other editors are unavailable.

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Dang, not much love for Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code here. That's a shame considering some of your beloved Poniverse staff have started using it (and have liked it).

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Brackets for light stuff and web stuff, because I love how lightweight and snappy it is. And how unobtrusive the autocomplete is.

For C++ I tend to use Visual Studio because it's just so beefy and solid. And I've spent a lot of hours building many-thousand-of-lines projects. A lot of other editors tend to start dying a bit at the 2 or 3 thousand mark, I find. Also lovely broken CLR support.

Python is either Pycharm (*unf* sadly I cannot afford a thing these days:(() or Spyder/Python's own IDLE. Both have their pros and cons: Spyder is awesome, has great displays, and is great for integration with Conda, etc. and allows you to test in a temporary file. But it's so slow to start on my machine. IDLE is fast, snappy, but lacking in some pretty basic features, like line numbers.

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Rather than starting us off with text editors, my high school threw us into the hungry jaws of IDEs... 

I guess the thing which most accurately answers the question is Vim for C projects in school :pinkie: I grab whatever the latest Eclipse is for java and use Pycharm for Python of course! 

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I use netbeans for java development, but Visual Studio Code for everything else (and for opening projects which won't open in netbeans for some reason)

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Usually it's Eclipse for Java development and Notepad++ most of the time for anything else (like Python or Lua). I've used Sublime Text (v2) and VIM a bit, particularly for C in some of my college classes and I like them both. But NPP is better for WIndows and I'm not keen on what seems like an excessive price to actually have a ST license (it's up to $80 now). Atom and VS Code are neat, but both are too unsure of what exactly there are imho and then, well Electron...

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Notepad++ or Kate for the bigger things and nano for the small scripts that would be not worth the hassle to edit in one of the other ones.

However, I do not usually edit large programs that consist of many files.

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Gonna sound dumb, but usually I go with notepad (literally notepad) on windows or gedit when on anything linux with GNOME. I kind of grew too lazy on college and just use those, then I compile on whatever compiller needed, except when doing stuff in C# because I use mono because Unity3D installs it.

Unless I am hunting bugs. Then I use either codeblocks or whatever comes with a direct test thingie. Like when I did flash stuff or when running simulations with matlab.

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Yep, can confirm, sounds dumb.

Notepad is right up there with the worst editors ever. For one it doesn't respect/understand anything other than Windows line endings. Also word wrap is a select-able feature that shouldn't even exist, because enabling it means you can't tell the difference between a file that is just one long line and one with actual line breaks. I'm sure I could come up with a few other reasons. It's even more terrible when it comes to coding for a hundred reasons, not least because it doesn't syntax highlighting, indentation handling, line numbers (and jumping to them), and half a dozen other really useful baseline features..

It's okay for quick note taking, reading old school text documentation for games/software, and editing config files. For every other case I'd rather use almost anything else.

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I use pycharm ide. Otherwise i just use idle for python. I might use notepad++ for some stuff and i used a bit of visual studio code even tho it's meh to me lol 

I've been learning some vim too. And I have atom installed just for some web project stuff.

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