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Ask HN: Good fast IDE for reading and navigating code in multiple languages
With the use AI I find myself writing less and less code, but reading way more than before at work. I have been using IDEA, because in my experience no IDE offers code inspection and navigation as good as IDEA across multiple languages. But it's very slow and mostly geared towards refactoring and editing. I have used VScode and I found it lacking as it is also slow. Nvim is very close to what I want but it takes some getting used to. Which IDE do you use?
- Alien1Being 3mo agoGood, fast, easy for novices. Choose two. I use nvim and emacs.
- akkad33 3mo agoNvim is good but requires set up which now I delegate to Claude Emacs feels too slow and not good if you have carpel tunnel syndrome
- Alien1Being 3mo agoI am speechless...
- AlexSGlife 3mo ago[flagged]
- roland35 3mo agoNeovim is where it's at. You can use lazyvim which has tons of languages you can select to add LSPs for.
- penpendian 3mo agowell i am lazy and i dislike my experience of configuring astrovim
- penpendian 3mo agoantigravity
- dv_dt 3mo agoLightest weight: bat and ripgrep Though not a traditional ide
- skydhash 3mo agoI use Emacs and ripgrep with the deadgrep plugin[0]. Emacs does have the `rgrep` command but the plugin presents a nicer interface. With no Emacs, I use `ripgrep` (sometimes with fd for the file candidates) and `less`. I only bother with LSP for projects I'm currently working on. Even then, I sometimes use `project-find-regexp` for whole codebase search. In Vim, I had the fzf plugin[1] with the command `:RG` bound to <leader>fg. [0] https://github.com/Wilfred/deadgrep https://github.com/Wilfred/deadgrep [1]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf.vim https://github.com/junegunn/fzf.vim
- salvesefu 3mo agopractically any ide built in the last 30 years can do what you need...from micro to zed. what are you looking for exactly?
- akkad33 3mo agoI find all of them slow especially when 3 language servers are running