Hey everyone. I’ve been a Linux user since 2008, and have kept myself solidly within FOSS or GNU/Libre software for a really long time. Not to be a total walking stereotype, I am fundamentally against Microsoft for a multitude of reasons, and I wanted to see if anyone out there has moved onto something different as well. VSCode is a juggernaut in terms of what it can do for developer workflows thanks to the insane plugin community, so I know I’ll need to adjust to a new workflow to a certain degree.
I develop in Laravel and some Symfony, MariaDB and PGSQL, Vue3 and Tailwind. Testing, static analysis, and linting suites are ran on the command line, so that’s not an issue. I don’t use AI in any capacity of my life, so that’s also not a requirement. If I could find something that offers a “run this cli command on file saving”, that’s really about the biggest requirement I hope to have in place.
I tried KDevelop with PHP support, but that IDE feels very much geared towards KDE development first and foremost. I gave Netbeans a shot last year, and I couldn’t quite get my groove going after a couple weeks. Every couple of years I keep checking in on editors like Netbeans or Sublime… but I feel like I’m not aware of other options.
Suggestions are welcome. Thanks!


Just wanna chime in with PhpActor experience (most common php LSP in Mason): incredibly buggy in big projects. Code actions are basically broken, references randomly stop working every half an hour.
Laravel isn’t my main beat, but if it were I’d have to spent a dozen hours fixing it first. Rust (rust-analyzer), python (pyright) and csharp (csharp_ls) are all a dream compared to it.