Now I’m wondering who uses what development tools. I mostly use Qt Creator myself - I chose it because of its good integration with C++ and Qt projects, and I’m just used to it. On Linux I use Qt Creator, and on Windows I use Visual Studio. I wonder what others use? VSCode, Vim, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDE, Emacs, Sublime or something more rare?
- Why did you decide to use them specifically?
- What do you like or annoy you about it?
- How usable is it in real work?
Zed
I decided to use it because it was written in Rust which seems a bit weird but I always found Rust-based softwares to be awesome. Also, it’s FOSS, extension-based and most important, it’s not VSCode.
Pros: its speed, stability, memory usage (~200M, which seems a lot for a texte editor, but then again I come from VSCode) fast development cycles (a whole Git interface was added recently), extensions for nearly every language, refactoring capabilities, opt-in AI agent (can be a self-hosted LLM).
Cons: not a fully-featured IDE like IntelliJ, Git client is missing features, some frameworks are not supported by extensions
I tried to use it for several projects -->