I tried 10 code editors

Summary by Krater

An overview and comparison of 10 code editors and IDEs used by programmers over the last 50 years, detailing their features, pros, and cons.

From the video

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• text editors
• IDEs
• programming tools
• development environment
• code editor comparison

What it concludes

• vi is a keyboard-based modal editor written by Bill Joy in 1976 that remains standard on most Linux distros.
• Emacs is a full-blown integrated development environment created by Guy Steele that offers extreme extensibility and built-in features like debuggers and file managers.
• Vim is a superset of vi core functionality with added features like syntax highlighting and multi-level undo, making it extremely popular among developers.
• Neovim improves upon Vim by embedding Lua as its scripting language to replace Vimscript.
• Nano is a command-line editor that does not require modes and has a gentle learning curve with key bindings displayed at the bottom.
• Notepad++ is a modern graphical text editor for Windows that supports macros, plugins, and mouse interaction for code editing tasks like highlighting and placing cursors.