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   Ludovic Courtès (civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr)'s status on Sunday, 15-Mar-2026 22:55:34 JST Ludovic Courtès

   What editor do you use for your #Guix and #Guile code?

   Help us improve the manual’s section on editor setup 👇
   https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/The-Perfect-Setup.html

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     Janneke (janneke@todon.nl)'s status on Sunday, 15-Mar-2026 22:55:28 JST Janneke

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     • Jessica Tallon

     @futurile @civodul @tsyesika
     When something is enormously popular that can only mean that it sucks terribly.

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     futurile (futurile@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Mar-2026 22:55:29 JST futurile

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     @civodul @tsyesika VSCode is hugely popular, Stack Overflow had it at 70% developers use it (2024 survey). It's hard to even internalise that level of popularity!

     It's not really an editor, in much the same way that Emacs isn't. And some of the tech like LSP is now hugely influential.

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     Ludovic Courtès (civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr)'s status on Sunday, 15-Mar-2026 22:55:31 JST Ludovic Courtès

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     Thread inspired by the neat talk @tsyesika gave at FOSDEM:
     https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/EKEFUU-guileoutsideofemacs/

     (I’d have included VSCode in this section but realized it has non-free parts that appear to be difficult to tear apart?)

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     Ludovic Courtès (civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr)'s status on Sunday, 15-Mar-2026 22:55:32 JST Ludovic Courtès

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     I’m particularly curious about the state of free editors one is likely to stumble upon when getting started with GNOME (gedit), KDE (kdevelop?), and other “mainstream” desktop environments.

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     Janneke (janneke@todon.nl)'s status on Monday, 16-Mar-2026 06:37:21 JST Janneke

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     @futurile @civodul @tsyesika
     That's a very good question and I only have some partial ideas.

     One of them being that most people like to do what most people do. But obviously, there's at least one ingredient missing.

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     futurile (futurile@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Mar-2026 06:37:22 JST futurile

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     @janneke @civodul @tsyesika Unfortunately, often true - why! 🤔