Code Editor

If your development environment is on a remote server, you might need to code on the remote machine itself to see the effects of your changes in real time. This scenario is fairly common these days as applications become more complex, and setting up a local development environment requires extensive configuration or mocking of the resources used in the app. In this case, you are left with very few options for code editors. Either you have to use CLI-based editors such as Vim, or you can use VSCode with the Remote SSH extension. Even with the extension, there are some issues related to code analysis and code completion. These processes have to happen on the remote machine, making your powerful local PC underutilized. And if you want to use Zed or Xcode, you are out of luck. ...

Many developers would agree that Windows is not known to be developer-friendly until you aren’t developing for the Windows ecosystem. Linux distros, on the other hand, are very good for development especially adding the fact that most of your build is going to run on Linux based servers. ...

Mircosoft’s Visual Studio Code has proven to be the dark horse of code editors. Don’t confuse yourself by seeing Microsoft as it is completely free, open source and MIT licensed. Even being late to the party, it has attracted enough users. The reason behind this is a perfect balance between speed, features, and hackability. ...