To be fair, I actually diverged to quite some amount from his original ideas, but reading that post encouraged me to start creating my own color scheme (which doesnât have yellow commentsâŚ).
Now, Iâm happy with that color scheme and Iâve been using it for at least half a year.
What I love about this post, is, the hideous eye-mutilating yellow background. Itâs not even for the post! Thatâs just his blog!
In theory, you might try to replace colors with typography. Would that work? I donât know. I havenât seen any examples.
No idea, that sounds weird. Who would do such a thing, and why? It must remain a mystery.
Do we think heâs actually sorry? It doesnât come across as authentically apologetic. I think there might be, some, rhetoric going on. there. I know, âI like doing syntax highlighting a bit different, let me show you howâ doesnât get the clicks maybe. Could be worth finding out.
But thatâs the great thing about editors: you can configure them.
Yeah total skill issue on my part, but to get the same kind of interface, and features as helix, I remember that it felt sluggish at time, overall I just donât really like to customize it much, i have my keybindings to move in insert mode, and thatâs it, overall i think for the keymap itâs quite even, honestly there isnât much differences. But since thereâs no plugin you donât have to worry about keybind conflict between plugins. I also like that helix comes with Rose-Pine by default
I knew that this community leaned more heavily towards Linux than what is common for many other programming languages, but I didnât realize that it was this skewed.
Is there any explanation for this relevant to Zig itself (such as missing features on Windows), or is it merely representative of our collective refined taste for superior software and programming languages?
Iâve got my office setup in the house, but now the weather is great Iâm spending more time in the man cave with the 2nd computer setup on the workbench, across from my art projects.
Nothing better to unravel some sticky design problems than to turn the music up, and swivel over to the painting desk and put some layers down with the airbrush.
Iâve had a thought to follow up in this thread with my âBoomerâ setup.
Which is primarily on Windows and other things that the Linux, btw crowd loves to spend a lot of time and effort hating on, leading to a lack of interest to making that post â I have better things to do. I do also use Mac and Linux - theyâre just not my primary ATM.
NixOS (unstable), Niri, Ghostty, Nushell, Helix. Usually nightly Zig via zig-overlay and direnv. Or latest stable when I get excited and consider whatever Iâm working on might possibly be useful for others down the road.
Itâs interesting to read about a lot of tools here.
But to be honest, I think for developers only very few tools are important:
An IDE or a good code editor that you know how to use with the keyboard, facilities for debugging and profiling, and a shell or a script language which you know well.
The OS, the terminal, window manager? I donât care mostly.
But a few reasons make me regret using MS Windows and VS Code (except from politics):
AI creeps in everywhere.
It is unnecessarily complicated / nearly impossible to setup a debugger and a profiler.
I tried @neurocyteâs flow editor as a replacement for VS Code, but failed to make zls work, and so I gave up early.
My impression is that the Zig community is a bit biased towards Linux.
âŚIME the biggest problem of Windows is how painfully slow everything is (and not just filesystem work). Booting into Linux on the same laptop is like winning one or two decades of hardware progress