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Alternatives to Vim

Emacs, Neovim, Atom, Notepad++, and Sublime Text are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Vim.
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What is Vim and what are its top alternatives?

Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is known for its powerful features like multiple modes (normal, insert, visual, etc.), extensive plugin system, and strong keyboard shortcuts for navigation and editing. However, Vim has a steep learning curve and can be intimidating for new users who are not familiar with modal editing. Additionally, customization requires editing configuration files, which may not be beginner-friendly.

  1. Emacs: Emacs is another powerful and customizable text editor that offers a wide range of features like extensibility through Emacs Lisp, multiple modes, and a rich set of built-in tools. Pros: Highly extensible, offers a wide variety of functionalities. Cons: Steep learning curve, can be resource-intensive.
  2. Visual Studio Code: Visual Studio Code is a popular open-source code editor developed by Microsoft. It features a user-friendly interface, built-in Git integration, extensions marketplace, and support for multiple languages. Pros: Modern interface, extensive plugin ecosystem. Cons: Less efficient for pure text editing compared to Vim.
  3. Sublime Text: Sublime Text is a lightweight and fast text editor with a minimalist design. It offers features like multiple cursors, split editing, and a powerful API for customization. Pros: Speedy performance, sleek interface. Cons: Not as feature-rich out of the box as Vim.
  4. Atom: Atom is a hackable text editor developed by GitHub. It is known for its flexibility, built-in package manager, and modern interface. Pros: Highly customizable, extensive package library. Cons: Can be slower compared to other text editors.
  5. Neovim: Neovim is a fork of Vim aimed at improving codebase maintainability and easing the process of adding new features. It maintains compatibility with Vim while improving performance and extensibility. Pros: Modern features, compatibility with Vim plugins. Cons: Not as widely adopted as Vim.
  6. UltraEdit: UltraEdit is a feature-packed text editor known for its powerful editing capabilities, syntax highlighting, and file comparison tools. Pros: Robust editing features, supports large files. Cons: Paid software.
  7. TextMate: TextMate is a Mac-specific text editor that offers a simple and clean interface along with features like project organization, auto-pairing, and syntax highlighting. Pros: Simplified interface, efficient for coding tasks. Cons: Limited to macOS users.
  8. GNU Nano: GNU Nano is a command-line text editor with a basic set of features suitable for simple text editing tasks. Pros: Lightweight, easy to use. Cons: Lacks advanced features compared to Vim.
  9. Kakoune: Kakoune is a modal code editor inspired by Vim and aims to enhance its editing paradigm. It offers features like multiple selections, client-server architecture, and a powerful plugin system. Pros: Improved editing workflow, extensibility. Cons: Less widely adopted than Vim.
  10. Brackets: Brackets is an open-source text editor specifically designed for web development. It provides features like live preview, preprocessor support, and visual tools for CSS editing. Pros: Tailored for web development tasks, real-time feedback. Cons: Limited functionality for non-web development tasks.

Top Alternatives to Vim

  • Emacs
    Emacs

    GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing. ...

  • Neovim
    Neovim

    Neovim is a project that seeks to aggressively refactor Vim in order to: simplify maintenance and encourage contributions, split the work between multiple developers, enable the implementation of new/modern user interfaces without any modifications to the core source, and improve extensibility with a new plugin architecture. ...

  • Atom
    Atom

    At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file. Atom is modern, approachable, and hackable to the core. We can't wait to see what you build with it. ...

  • Notepad++
    Notepad++

    Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License. ...

  • Sublime Text
    Sublime Text

    Sublime Text is available for OS X, Windows and Linux. One license is all you need to use Sublime Text on every computer you own, no matter what operating system it uses. Sublime Text uses a custom UI toolkit, optimized for speed and beauty, while taking advantage of native functionality on each platform. ...

  • Git
    Git

    Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. ...

  • GitHub
    GitHub

    GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together. ...

  • Visual Studio Code
    Visual Studio Code

    Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows. ...

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The extensible self-documenting text editor.
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    Vast array of extensions
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    Have all you can imagine
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    Everything i need in one place
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    Portability
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    Customer config
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    Your config works on any platform
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    Low memory consumption
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    Perfect for monsters
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    All life inside one program
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    Extendable, portable, fast - all at your fingertips
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    Enables extremely rapid keyboard-only navigation
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    Widely-used keybindings (e.g. by bash)
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    Extensible in Lisp
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    Runs everywhere important
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    FOSS Software
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    Powerful multilanguage IDE
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    Git integration
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    May be old but always reliable
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    Asynchronous
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    Powerful UI
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    Huge ecosystem
CONS OF EMACS
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    So good and extensible, that one can get sidetracked
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    Hard to learn for beginners
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    Not default preinstalled in GNU/linux

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    Modern and more powerful Vim
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    Fast
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    Asynchronous plugins
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    Stable
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    Edit text fast
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    Great community
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    Vim plugins work out of the box
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    Embedable
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    Unix-like
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    Built-in terminal support
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    Plugins in any language
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    External GUIs
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    Great Colorschemes
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    Extremely customizable
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    Rogério R. Alcântara

    For a Visual Studio Code/Atom developer that works mostly with Node.js/TypeScript/Ruby/Go and wants to get rid of graphic-text-editors-IDE-like at once, which one is worthy of investing time to pick up?

    I'm a total n00b on the subject, but I've read good things about Neovim's Lua support, and I wonder what would be the VIM response/approach for it?

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    Hi, so I have been contracted by a peer to create a website using React with Java as the backend for server-side applications. I have the project listed on GitHub, and you can find it by searching for my username. The question I have is what is the fastest way to correctly learn all the necessary technologies needed to host the website? I'm also learning Neovim because I used Visual Studio Code for a bit and hated it, so if anyone has advice relating to Neovim that would also be appreciated. Thanks for providing some advice, I have little idea of where I need to go and some direction would be well appreciated. Cheers! Jls

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    Atom

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      Free
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      Beautiful UI
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      Backed by github
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      Built with node.js
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      Web native
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      Community
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      Packages
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      Cross platform
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      Nice UI
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      Multicursor support
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      TypeScript editor
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      Open source, lots of packages, and so configurable
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      cli start
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      Simple but powerful
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      Chrome Inspector works IN EDITOR
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      Snippets
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      Code readability
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      It's powerful
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      Awesome
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      Smart TypeScript code completion
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      Well documented
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      "Free", "Hackable", "Open Source", The Awesomness
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      full support
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      Split-Tab Layout
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      Apm publish minor
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      Consistent UI on all platforms
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      Slow with large files
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      Slow startup
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      Most of the time packages are hard to find.
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      No longer maintained
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      Cannot Run code with F5
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      Can be easily Modified

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    Jerome Dalbert
    Principal Backend Software Engineer at StackShare · | 13 upvotes · 935.1K views

    I liked Sublime Text for its speed, simplicity and keyboard shortcuts which synergize well when working on scripting languages like Ruby and JavaScript. I extended the editor with custom Python scripts that improved keyboard navigability such as autofocusing the sidebar when no files are open, or changing tab closing behavior.

    But customization can only get you so far, and there were little things that I still had to use the mouse for, such as scrolling, repositioning lines on the screen, selecting the line number of a failing test stack trace from a separate plugin pane, etc. After 3 years of wearily moving my arm and hand to perform the same repetitive tasks, I decided to switch to Vim for 3 reasons:

    • your fingers literally don’t ever need to leave the keyboard home row (I had to remap the escape key though)
    • it is a reliable tool that has been around for more than 30 years and will still be around for the next 30 years
    • I wanted to "look like a hacker" by doing everything inside my terminal and by becoming a better Unix citizen

    The learning curve is very steep and it took me a year to master it, but investing time to be truly comfortable with my #TextEditor was more than worth it. To me, Vim comes close to being the perfect editor and I probably won’t need to switch ever again. It feels good to ignore new editors that come out every few years, like Atom and Visual Studio Code.

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    Julian Sanchez
    Lead Developer at Chore Champion · | 9 upvotes · 786.5K views

    We use Visual Studio Code because it allows us to easily and quickly integrate with Git, much like Sublime Merge ,but it is integrated into the IDE. Another cool part about VS Code is the ability collaborate with each other with Visual Studio Live Share which allows our whole team to get more done together. It brings the convenience of the Google Suite to programming, offering something that works more smoothly than anything found on Atom or Sublime Text

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      Great code editor
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      Plugins
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      Nice GUI
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      Regex & Special Character Search & Replace
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      Fast startup
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      100% Free
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      Column selection
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      Awesome autocomplete
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      Easy edit on FTP servers (NppFTP)
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      Cos it's seck
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    Gustavo Muñoz
    Senior Software Engineer at JOOR · | 3 upvotes · 316.5K views

    I have chosen Visual Studio Code after testing a lot of other editors like Atom, Sublime Text (with legal license), Vim or even Notepad++ because it is the sum of all their virtues and none of their defects. It's fast, it has all the tools and plugins I need to work, and it's pretty and very good optimized. It has what I need to work and nothing more. And the main plugins works like a charm. Developing for React or Flutter is amazing. Even the TypeScript plugin works great. I like how IntelliSense works, and all the extra tools to code remotely using #ssh, access #RESTfulAPI or event manage projects or collaborating remotely. Thanks #Microsoft for Visual Studio Code.

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      Great code editor
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      Cross platform
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      Nice UI
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      Unlimited trial
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      Cmd + d is the best command ever
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      Great community
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      Package control, modules
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      Mac OS X support
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      Easy to get started with
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      Monokai
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      Everything you need without the bloat
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      Built in Python
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      Easy
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      Speed
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      Session & edit resuming
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      Package Control
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      Well Designed
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      Multiple selections
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      ALT + CMD + DOWN is the best command ever
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      So futuristic and convenient
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      ALT + F3 the best command ever
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      Great
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      Find anything fast within entire project
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      Easy to use
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      Free
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      Simple and clean design
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      Totally customizable
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      Color schemes and cmd+d
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      Material theme best theme forever
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    CONS OF SUBLIME TEXT
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      Steep learning curve
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      Everything
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      Flexibility to move file
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      Number of plugins doing the same thing
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      Doesn't act like a Mac app
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      Not open sourced
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      Don't have flutter integration
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      Forces you to buy license

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    Johnny Bell

    I've been in the #frontend game for about 7 years now. I started coding in Sublime Text because all of the tutorials I was doing back then everyone was using it. I found the speed amazing compared to some other tools at the time. I kept using Sublime Text for about 4-5 years.

    I find Sublime Text lacks some functionality, after all it is just a text editor rather than a full fledged IDE. I finally converted over to PhpStorm as I was working with Magento and Magento as you know is mainly #PHP based.

    This was amazing all the features in PhpStorm I loved, the debugging features, and the control click feature when you click on a dependency or linked file it will take you to that file. It was great.

    PhpStorm is kind of slow, I found that Prettier was taking a long time to format my code, and it just was lagging a lot so I was looking for alternatives. After watching some more tutorial videos I noticed that everyone was using Visual Studio Code. So I gave it a go, and its amazing.

    It has support for everything I need with the plugins and the integration with Git is amazing. The speed of this IDE is blazing fast, and I wouldn't go back to using PhpStorm anymore. I highly recommend giving Visual Studio Code a try!

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    Labinator Team

    At labinator.com, we use HTML5, CSS 3, Sass, Vanilla.JS and PHP when building our premium WordPress themes and plugins. When writing our codes, we use Sublime Text and Visual Studio Code depending on the project. We run Manjaro and Debian operating systems in our office. Manjaro is a great desktop operating system for all range of tasks while Debian is a solid choice for servers.

    WordPress became a very popular choice when it comes to content management systems and building websites. It is easy to learn and has a great community behind it. The high number of plugins as well that are available for WordPress allows any user to customize it depending on his/her needs.

    For development, HTML5 with Sass is our go-to choice when building our themes.

    Main Advantages Of Sass:

    • It's CSS syntax friendly
    • It offers variables
    • It uses a nested syntax
    • It includes mixins
    • Great community and online support.
    • Great documentation that is easy to read and follow.

    As for PHP, we always thrive to use PHP 7.3+. After the introduction of PHP 7, the WordPress development process became more stable and reliable than before. If you a developer considering PHP 7.3+ for your project, it would be good to note the following benefits.

    The Benefits Of Using PHP:

    • Open Source.
    • Highly Extendible.
    • Easy to learn and read.
    • Platform independent.
    • Compatible with APACHE.
    • Low development and maintenance cost.
    • Great community and support.
    • Detailed documentation that has everything you need!

    Why PHP 7.3+?

    • Flexible Heredoc & Nowdoc Syntaxes - Two key methods for defining strings within PHP. They also became easier to read and more reliable.
    • A good boost in performance speed which is extremely important when it comes to WordPress development.
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    Git

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      Fast
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      Open source
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      Better than svn
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      Great command-line application
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      Simple
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      Free
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      Easy to use
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      Does not require server
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      Distributed
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      Small & Fast
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      Feature based workflow
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      Staging Area
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      Most wide-spread VSC
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      Disposable Experimentation
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      Role-based codelines
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      Frictionless Context Switching
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      Data Assurance
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      Efficient
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      Just awesome
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      Easy branching and merging
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      Github integration
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      Compatible
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      Possible to lose history and commits
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      Flexible
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      Team Integration
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      Easy
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      Light
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      Fast, scalable, distributed revision control system
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      Rebase supported natively; reflog; access to plumbing
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      Flexible, easy, Safe, and fast
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      CLI is great, but the GUI tools are awesome
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      It's what you do
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    CONS OF GIT
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      Hard to learn
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      Inconsistent command line interface
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      Easy to lose uncommitted work
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      Worst documentation ever possibly made
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      Awful merge handling
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      Unexistent preventive security flows
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      Rebase hell
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      Ironically even die-hard supporters screw up badly
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      When --force is disabled, cannot rebase
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      Doesn't scale for big data

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    Simon Reymann
    Senior Fullstack Developer at QUANTUSflow Software GmbH · | 30 upvotes · 11.8M views

    Our whole DevOps stack consists of the following tools:

    • GitHub (incl. GitHub Pages/Markdown for Documentation, GettingStarted and HowTo's) for collaborative review and code management tool
    • Respectively Git as revision control system
    • SourceTree as Git GUI
    • Visual Studio Code as IDE
    • CircleCI for continuous integration (automatize development process)
    • Prettier / TSLint / ESLint as code linter
    • SonarQube as quality gate
    • Docker as container management (incl. Docker Compose for multi-container application management)
    • VirtualBox for operating system simulation tests
    • Kubernetes as cluster management for docker containers
    • Heroku for deploying in test environments
    • nginx as web server (preferably used as facade server in production environment)
    • SSLMate (using OpenSSL) for certificate management
    • Amazon EC2 (incl. Amazon S3) for deploying in stage (production-like) and production environments
    • PostgreSQL as preferred database system
    • Redis as preferred in-memory database/store (great for caching)

    The main reason we have chosen Kubernetes over Docker Swarm is related to the following artifacts:

    • Key features: Easy and flexible installation, Clear dashboard, Great scaling operations, Monitoring is an integral part, Great load balancing concepts, Monitors the condition and ensures compensation in the event of failure.
    • Applications: An application can be deployed using a combination of pods, deployments, and services (or micro-services).
    • Functionality: Kubernetes as a complex installation and setup process, but it not as limited as Docker Swarm.
    • Monitoring: It supports multiple versions of logging and monitoring when the services are deployed within the cluster (Elasticsearch/Kibana (ELK), Heapster/Grafana, Sysdig cloud integration).
    • Scalability: All-in-one framework for distributed systems.
    • Other Benefits: Kubernetes is backed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), huge community among container orchestration tools, it is an open source and modular tool that works with any OS.
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    Tymoteusz Paul
    Devops guy at X20X Development LTD · | 23 upvotes · 10.1M views

    Often enough I have to explain my way of going about setting up a CI/CD pipeline with multiple deployment platforms. Since I am a bit tired of yapping the same every single time, I've decided to write it up and share with the world this way, and send people to read it instead ;). I will explain it on "live-example" of how the Rome got built, basing that current methodology exists only of readme.md and wishes of good luck (as it usually is ;)).

    It always starts with an app, whatever it may be and reading the readmes available while Vagrant and VirtualBox is installing and updating. Following that is the first hurdle to go over - convert all the instruction/scripts into Ansible playbook(s), and only stopping when doing a clear vagrant up or vagrant reload we will have a fully working environment. As our Vagrant environment is now functional, it's time to break it! This is the moment to look for how things can be done better (too rigid/too lose versioning? Sloppy environment setup?) and replace them with the right way to do stuff, one that won't bite us in the backside. This is the point, and the best opportunity, to upcycle the existing way of doing dev environment to produce a proper, production-grade product.

    I should probably digress here for a moment and explain why. I firmly believe that the way you deploy production is the same way you should deploy develop, shy of few debugging-friendly setting. This way you avoid the discrepancy between how production work vs how development works, which almost always causes major pains in the back of the neck, and with use of proper tools should mean no more work for the developers. That's why we start with Vagrant as developer boxes should be as easy as vagrant up, but the meat of our product lies in Ansible which will do meat of the work and can be applied to almost anything: AWS, bare metal, docker, LXC, in open net, behind vpn - you name it.

    We must also give proper consideration to monitoring and logging hoovering at this point. My generic answer here is to grab Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash. While for different use cases there may be better solutions, this one is well battle-tested, performs reasonably and is very easy to scale both vertically (within some limits) and horizontally. Logstash rules are easy to write and are well supported in maintenance through Ansible, which as I've mentioned earlier, are at the very core of things, and creating triggers/reports and alerts based on Elastic and Kibana is generally a breeze, including some quite complex aggregations.

    If we are happy with the state of the Ansible it's time to move on and put all those roles and playbooks to work. Namely, we need something to manage our CI/CD pipelines. For me, the choice is obvious: TeamCity. It's modern, robust and unlike most of the light-weight alternatives, it's transparent. What I mean by that is that it doesn't tell you how to do things, doesn't limit your ways to deploy, or test, or package for that matter. Instead, it provides a developer-friendly and rich playground for your pipelines. You can do most the same with Jenkins, but it has a quite dated look and feel to it, while also missing some key functionality that must be brought in via plugins (like quality REST API which comes built-in with TeamCity). It also comes with all the common-handy plugins like Slack or Apache Maven integration.

    The exact flow between CI and CD varies too greatly from one application to another to describe, so I will outline a few rules that guide me in it: 1. Make build steps as small as possible. This way when something breaks, we know exactly where, without needing to dig and root around. 2. All security credentials besides development environment must be sources from individual Vault instances. Keys to those containers should exist only on the CI/CD box and accessible by a few people (the less the better). This is pretty self-explanatory, as anything besides dev may contain sensitive data and, at times, be public-facing. Because of that appropriate security must be present. TeamCity shines in this department with excellent secrets-management. 3. Every part of the build chain shall consume and produce artifacts. If it creates nothing, it likely shouldn't be its own build. This way if any issue shows up with any environment or version, all developer has to do it is grab appropriate artifacts to reproduce the issue locally. 4. Deployment builds should be directly tied to specific Git branches/tags. This enables much easier tracking of what caused an issue, including automated identifying and tagging the author (nothing like automated regression testing!).

    Speaking of deployments, I generally try to keep it simple but also with a close eye on the wallet. Because of that, I am more than happy with AWS or another cloud provider, but also constantly peeking at the loads and do we get the value of what we are paying for. Often enough the pattern of use is not constantly erratic, but rather has a firm baseline which could be migrated away from the cloud and into bare metal boxes. That is another part where this approach strongly triumphs over the common Docker and CircleCI setup, where you are very much tied in to use cloud providers and getting out is expensive. Here to embrace bare-metal hosting all you need is a help of some container-based self-hosting software, my personal preference is with Proxmox and LXC. Following that all you must write are ansible scripts to manage hardware of Proxmox, similar way as you do for Amazon EC2 (ansible supports both greatly) and you are good to go. One does not exclude another, quite the opposite, as they can live in great synergy and cut your costs dramatically (the heavier your base load, the bigger the savings) while providing production-grade resiliency.

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      It integrates directly with Azure
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      Standard in Open Source collab
    • 10
      Newsfeed
    • 8
      Fast
    • 8
      Beautiful user experience
    • 8
      It integrates directly with Hipchat
    • 7
      Easy to discover new code libraries
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      It's awesome
    • 6
      Smooth integration
    • 6
      Cloud SCM
    • 6
      Nice API
    • 6
      Graphs
    • 6
      Integrations
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      Hands down best online Git service available
    • 5
      Reliable
    • 5
      Quick Onboarding
    • 5
      CI Integration
    • 5
      Remarkable uptime
    • 4
      Security options
    • 4
      Loved by developers
    • 4
      Uses GIT
    • 4
      Free HTML hosting
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      Easy to use and collaborate with others
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      Version Control
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      Simple but powerful
    • 4
      Unlimited Public Repos at no cost
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      Nice to use
    • 3
      IAM
    • 3
      Ci
    • 3
      Easy deployment via SSH
    • 2
      Free private repos
    • 2
      Good tools support
    • 2
      All in one development service
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      Never dethroned
    • 2
      Easy source control and everything is backed up
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      Issues tracker
    • 2
      Self Hosted
    • 2
      IAM integration
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      Very Easy to Use
    • 2
      Easy to use
    • 2
      Leads the copycats
    • 2
      Free HTML hostings
    • 2
      Easy and efficient maintainance of the projects
    • 2
      Beautiful
    • 1
      Dasf
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      Profound
    CONS OF GITHUB
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      Owned by micrcosoft
    • 38
      Expensive for lone developers that want private repos
    • 15
      Relatively slow product/feature release cadence
    • 10
      API scoping could be better
    • 9
      Only 3 collaborators for private repos
    • 4
      Limited featureset for issue management
    • 3
      Does not have a graph for showing history like git lens
    • 2
      GitHub Packages does not support SNAPSHOT versions
    • 1
      No multilingual interface
    • 1
      Takes a long time to commit
    • 1
      Expensive

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    Johnny Bell

    I was building a personal project that I needed to store items in a real time database. I am more comfortable with my Frontend skills than my backend so I didn't want to spend time building out anything in Ruby or Go.

    I stumbled on Firebase by #Google, and it was really all I needed. It had realtime data, an area for storing file uploads and best of all for the amount of data I needed it was free!

    I built out my application using tools I was familiar with, React for the framework, Redux.js to manage my state across components, and styled-components for the styling.

    Now as this was a project I was just working on in my free time for fun I didn't really want to pay for hosting. I did some research and I found Netlify. I had actually seen them at #ReactRally the year before and deployed a Gatsby site to Netlify already.

    Netlify was very easy to setup and link to my GitHub account you select a repo and pretty much with very little configuration you have a live site that will deploy every time you push to master.

    With the selection of these tools I was able to build out my application, connect it to a realtime database, and deploy to a live environment all with $0 spent.

    If you're looking to build out a small app I suggest giving these tools a go as you can get your idea out into the real world for absolutely no cost.

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    Context: I wanted to create an end to end IoT data pipeline simulation in Google Cloud IoT Core and other GCP services. I never touched Terraform meaningfully until working on this project, and it's one of the best explorations in my development career. The documentation and syntax is incredibly human-readable and friendly. I'm used to building infrastructure through the google apis via Python , but I'm so glad past Sung did not make that decision. I was tempted to use Google Cloud Deployment Manager, but the templates were a bit convoluted by first impression. I'm glad past Sung did not make this decision either.

    Solution: Leveraging Google Cloud Build Google Cloud Run Google Cloud Bigtable Google BigQuery Google Cloud Storage Google Compute Engine along with some other fun tools, I can deploy over 40 GCP resources using Terraform!

    Check Out My Architecture: CLICK ME

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    PROS OF VISUAL STUDIO CODE
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      Powerful multilanguage IDE
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      Fast
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      Front-end develop out of the box
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      Support TypeScript IntelliSense
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      Very basic but free
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      Git integration
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      Intellisense
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      Faster than Atom
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      Better ui, easy plugins, and nice git integration
    • 45
      Great Refactoring Tools
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      Good Plugins
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      Terminal
    • 38
      Superb markdown support
    • 36
      Open Source
    • 35
      Extensions
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      Awesome UI
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      Large & up-to-date extension community
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      Powerful and fast
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      Portable
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      Best code editor
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      Best editor
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      Easy to get started with
    • 15
      Lots of extensions
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      Good for begginers
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      Crossplatform
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      Built on Electron
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      Extensions for everything
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      Open, cross-platform, fast, monthly updates
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      All Languages Support
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      Easy to use and learn
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      "fast, stable & easy to use"
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      Extensible
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      Ui design is great
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      Totally customizable
    • 11
      Git out of the box
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      Useful for begginer
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      Faster edit for slow computer
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      SSH support
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      Great community
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      Fast Startup
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      Works With Almost EveryThing You Need
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      Great language support
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      Powerful Debugger
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      It has terminal and there are lots of shortcuts in it
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      Can compile and run .py files
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      Python extension is fast
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      Features rich
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      Great document formater
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      He is not Michael
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      Extension Echosystem
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      She is not Rachel
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      Awesome multi cursor support
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      VSCode.pro Course makes it easy to learn
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      Language server client
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      SFTP Workspace
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      Very proffesional
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      Easy azure
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      Has better support and more extentions for debugging
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      Supports lots of operating systems
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      Excellent as git difftool and mergetool
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      Has more than enough languages for any developer
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      'batteries included'
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      More tools to integrate with vs
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      Emmet preinstalled
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      VS Code Server: Browser version of VS Code
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      CMake support with autocomplete
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      Microsoft
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      Light
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      Big extension marketplace
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      Resource hog at times
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      Poor refactoring
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      Poor UI Designer
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      Weak Ui design tools
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      Poor autocomplete
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      Super Slow
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      Huge cpu usage with few installed extension
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      Microsoft sends telemetry data
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      Poor in PHP
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      It's MicroSoft
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      No color Intergrator
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      Bad Plugin Architecture
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      Powered by Electron
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    Yshay Yaacobi

    Our first experience with .NET core was when we developed our OSS feature management platform - Tweek (https://github.com/soluto/tweek). We wanted to create a solution that is able to run anywhere (super important for OSS), has excellent performance characteristics and can fit in a multi-container architecture. We decided to implement our rule engine processor in F# , our main service was implemented in C# and other components were built using JavaScript / TypeScript and Go.

    Visual Studio Code worked really well for us as well, it worked well with all our polyglot services and the .Net core integration had great cross-platform developer experience (to be fair, F# was a bit trickier) - actually, each of our team members used a different OS (Ubuntu, macos, windows). Our production deployment ran for a time on Docker Swarm until we've decided to adopt Kubernetes with almost seamless migration process.

    After our positive experience of running .Net core workloads in containers and developing Tweek's .Net services on non-windows machines, C# had gained back some of its popularity (originally lost to Node.js), and other teams have been using it for developing microservices, k8s sidecars (like https://github.com/Soluto/airbag), cli tools, serverless functions and other projects...

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    Simon Reymann
    Senior Fullstack Developer at QUANTUSflow Software GmbH · | 30 upvotes · 11.8M views

    Our whole DevOps stack consists of the following tools:

    • GitHub (incl. GitHub Pages/Markdown for Documentation, GettingStarted and HowTo's) for collaborative review and code management tool
    • Respectively Git as revision control system
    • SourceTree as Git GUI
    • Visual Studio Code as IDE
    • CircleCI for continuous integration (automatize development process)
    • Prettier / TSLint / ESLint as code linter
    • SonarQube as quality gate
    • Docker as container management (incl. Docker Compose for multi-container application management)
    • VirtualBox for operating system simulation tests
    • Kubernetes as cluster management for docker containers
    • Heroku for deploying in test environments
    • nginx as web server (preferably used as facade server in production environment)
    • SSLMate (using OpenSSL) for certificate management
    • Amazon EC2 (incl. Amazon S3) for deploying in stage (production-like) and production environments
    • PostgreSQL as preferred database system
    • Redis as preferred in-memory database/store (great for caching)

    The main reason we have chosen Kubernetes over Docker Swarm is related to the following artifacts:

    • Key features: Easy and flexible installation, Clear dashboard, Great scaling operations, Monitoring is an integral part, Great load balancing concepts, Monitors the condition and ensures compensation in the event of failure.
    • Applications: An application can be deployed using a combination of pods, deployments, and services (or micro-services).
    • Functionality: Kubernetes as a complex installation and setup process, but it not as limited as Docker Swarm.
    • Monitoring: It supports multiple versions of logging and monitoring when the services are deployed within the cluster (Elasticsearch/Kibana (ELK), Heapster/Grafana, Sysdig cloud integration).
    • Scalability: All-in-one framework for distributed systems.
    • Other Benefits: Kubernetes is backed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), huge community among container orchestration tools, it is an open source and modular tool that works with any OS.
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