I love reading about and occasionally tinkering with older text editors like vim, emacs, ed, acme, ex, nedit, and as such.

For actual work, though, I’ve been using VS Code exclusively since its inception. Electron might be a bloated mess, but spending time on alternatives doesn’t feel worth it. Maybe that’s because I didn’t grow up in the golden era of computing and can’t make the vim workflow stick no matter how hard I try.

I’m pretty sure twenty years from now, this generation of developers will get blurry-eyed reminiscing about how fast and feature-packed VS Code was, and how Microsoft built the best GUI text editor of its time.

As for TUI editors, I love micro because it has mouse support and doesn’t make you memorize a spellbook just to move around.