I’m still waiting for a rust text editor or ide to emerge and take off. I think that’s going to be ‘the one’. I’ve been trying to go for rust software wherever

I’m still waiting for a rust text editor or ide to emerge and take off. I think that’s going to be ‘the one’. I’ve been trying to go for rust software wherever I can on my new MacBook and it’s always blazingly fast. Alacritty literally loads instantly - makes the terminal experience so much nicer. In the mean time, I’ve tried out Atom, VSCode, Vim, Emacs and PhpStorm but settled on using Sublime Text and Sublime Merge after watching a senior wizard use them day in day out at my last job. I absolutely love their minimalism: I want as little as possible on the screen to distract me when I’m coding. Atom, VSCode and especially PhpStorm all felt too bloated and cluttered: way too many panels and buttons taking up real estate from the text editor. Focus mode isn’t the solution for me because it’s annoying coming in and out of it all the time when you want to do a file search or look for something in the directory tree or what not. For me, Vim and Emacs were too much of a pain in the arse, both with the endless configuration and research you have to do to get a decent set up and with having to remember all the keyboard shortcuts and look one of them up from a cheat sheet when you inevitably forget. For me, Sublime Text really is the sweet spot between the two worlds.