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!
Eclipse Theia is meant to be a 1:1 replacement for VSCode, and it’s a completely independent rewrite. Afaik the only part they share is the “Monaco” text editor component, but there’s not really much lock-in risk there.
Eclipse are also the people who run the open-vsx extension registry.
Personally, I am very happy with Sublime Text and don’t see myself using anything else any time soon. But if I did need an alternative, Theia might be my first choice.
Edit: another one that hasn’t been mentioned yet is Lite-XL