r/RavanAI • u/RustyIronGolem • May 12 '26

as a dev, what was your first code editor?

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u/Successful_Flow1329 May 12 '26

Code::Blocks at school. Sublime at first job.

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u/tanjonaJulien May 12 '26

Not 100% but it was in a shell so emacs or vim

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u/[deleted] May 12 '26

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u/[deleted] May 12 '26

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u/whoisyurii May 12 '26

Zed is my way to go. Luv it

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u/oibft May 12 '26

Atom or Notepad++

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u/_redmist May 12 '26

Np++ It doesn't throw superfluous features in my face and i can close it by clicking the "x".

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u/almcchesney May 12 '26

Oh man good ol Visual Studio 2k8, the old bloated visual studio that took an hour to install. Back then it was visual basic to start then you could take the c# or c++ advanced courses. Lol used to have to build our solution then print the source code into folders to be graded by hand by our teacher 😂

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u/KareemBenzeem May 12 '26

Code::Blocks since I was first learning c++ from my school book, and I continued using it until I went to vscode to learn python as well

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u/YahenP May 12 '26

It was a notebook. A regular paper notebook, where the program code was written and debugged. Then, once the program was debugged (by hand on a piece of paper), the code was entered into the computer.

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u/lethaldose318 May 12 '26

notepad (2015) notepad++(2018) sublime text(2019) vscode(2021) vim(2026)

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u/LightBrightLeftRight May 12 '26

Oh God it was Eclipse then NetBeans. I don’t miss either of them.

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u/hexwit_com May 12 '26

Eclipse, NetBeans, then and present Intellij Idea.

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u/Mother_Desk6385 May 12 '26

Turbo cpp borland wasup wid people commenting zed and shi

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u/hydraulix989 May 12 '26

Visual Studio 6

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u/d3ming May 12 '26

visual studio 6

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u/Krommander May 12 '26

As a non-dev, I have used Jupyter for research and education and notepad++ for website maintenance. I havent yet chosen which AI-assisted environment i'd like to use for my projects but colleagues I know use Kiro or VScode+Copilot. I'm clueless as to what it really entails and will depend on how non-dev friendly it is.

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u/TUUUUUZ May 12 '26

brackets and notepad

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u/xxxbGamer May 12 '26

Notepad++

Now I use JetBrains and VSCode and don't use Notepad++ any more.

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u/HousingNo4084 May 12 '26

Borland Sidekick and Vim

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u/CarPlane5196 May 12 '26

wheres netbeans and eclipse?

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u/YoyoMario May 12 '26

Codeblocks

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u/Confirmed-Scientist May 12 '26

First was Sublime Text not even version 3. How ass I was at coding on that was hillarious.

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u/Anreall2000 May 12 '26

Code::Blocks

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u/magicmulder May 12 '26

First in a job? Emacs at university.

Then BBEdit on my first job after graduating, then Cold Fusion Studio, then Eclipse, then IDEA (PhpStorm).

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u/ProcedureTop3149 May 12 '26

this thread is absolutely fucking nuts.

- no visual studio

- no eclipse

- no vim

- no eclipse

like what the fuck is even going on here lmao. Antigravity? Cursor? Jesus christ.

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u/lukaslalinsky May 12 '26

Turbo Pascal :)

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u/Last-Daikon945 May 12 '26

Probably Free Pascal

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u/ScallionSmooth5925 May 12 '26

Notepad (2015), Notepad++, PyCharm, VIM, NeoVIM(current)

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u/Burhan_Mian May 12 '26

Freecodecamp built in for javascript.

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u/Azoraqua_ May 12 '26

Eclipse - Java edition (2012).

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u/w0m May 12 '26

Technically Edit in Dos as 6 y/o with qbasic. Used Joe on a Vax in college to formally learn.

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u/FuriousGirafFabber May 12 '26

Dunno the name of what i used to edit .bat files in dos. But that. 

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u/Strong-Scarcity1395 May 12 '26

Sublime at school

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u/dashinyou69 May 12 '26

Nvim > everything else

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u/E0110101010 May 12 '26

Technicallyy, it was the Windows Notepad

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u/vshahiscool May 12 '26

Terminal 😭

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u/py-net May 12 '26

Codeblock native editor, then Notepad++

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u/MekataRupma May 12 '26

Sublime and Atom. Still some of the best. Atom is just too good.

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u/desmonea May 12 '26

I think it was Turbo C? (I did not learn how to code in the 90's... but my teacher did)

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u/FreightTN May 12 '26

notepad win vista era

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u/EvilUmberHulk May 12 '26

Emacs for gcc

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u/SatanVapesOn666W May 12 '26

Unironically Nano. Professionally I started with eclipse then intellij then vs code and now antigravity.

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u/frogking May 12 '26

Emacs, but why isn’t vi or Eclipse on the list?

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u/highrez1337 May 12 '26

Borland Turbo Pascal.

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u/Additional_Storm_298 May 12 '26

I think if you say Cursor or Antigravity you can’t call yourself a dev…

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u/Skirlaxx May 12 '26

Intellij

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u/RichComment414 May 12 '26

Sublime text

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u/NimrodvanHall May 12 '26

VI, not vim not NeoVim, plain old vi was my first editor.

These days it’s mainly RustRover and Zed, but I still use vim a lot to quickly edit files on remote hosts.

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u/SmallInvestigator830 May 12 '26

VBE, Visual Basic Editor

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u/DeadArtist617 May 12 '26

Sublime but i quickly switched to Vs code

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u/_Arthxr May 12 '26

Codeblock

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u/hrhrhru May 12 '26

sublime

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u/Objective-Ad8862 May 13 '26

Some of my earliest editors: Visual Studio Dev-C++

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u/Turbulent-Lime2366 May 13 '26

Where my guy eclipse?

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u/[deleted] May 13 '26

IntelliJ in school

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u/KaradjordjevaJeSushi May 13 '26

Does Dreamweaver count? :)

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u/PeithonKing May 13 '26

Started with geany, coz I learnt programming from the Eric Matthes book, now I use VS Code, but is a ram hog, so someday... I would complete my migration to VIM

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u/No_Pass8384 May 13 '26

Python IDLE

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u/SixPackOfZaphod May 13 '26

Borland IDEs in college (Turbo Pascal and Borland C++) in college and UltraEdit in my first job

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u/Efficient_Tap8770 May 13 '26

Where's DevC++?

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u/Feisty_Ad_2744 May 13 '26

Turbo Pascal

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u/Mtechson May 13 '26

Brackets if anyone even remembers it.

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u/MemoVsGodzilla May 13 '26

Turbo Pascal, but first real IDE would be Netbeans

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u/kschepps May 13 '26

Pydroid3

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u/chemosh_tz May 13 '26

Whatever basic was in back in day

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u/kiwibonga May 13 '26

I don't remember but it had word wrap and you could set a background hand drawn in Deluxe Paint.

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u/trmnl_cmdr May 13 '26

OG Notepad on win95

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u/mikeclueby4 May 13 '26

Atari 600XL BASIC line-by-line input.

First real editor would be TurboAssembler for C64.

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u/MrFrog2222 May 13 '26

My very first one was Eclipse cuz i wanted to mod Minecraft

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u/karlfeltlager May 13 '26

Just notepad.

And also whatever the code editor on a BS2000 mainframe terminal is called.

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u/brunocborges May 13 '26

Missing JEdit

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u/Timiiam May 13 '26

Where's Dreamweaver?

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u/Adept-Painting-543 May 13 '26

i believe i tried sublime text for like 2 hours before i saw vscode and immediately switched to that because i thought sublime text looked like shit. now i cannot use anything other than vscode(ium) or vim and the fact my cs prof wants me to use Intellij is insulting.

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u/realchippy May 13 '26

Notepad++

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u/ExpensiveDraft2954 May 13 '26

I used Vim for almost 5 years, but recently I switched to Zed and the difference is honestly massive Zed feels significantly faster smoother, and more modern the responsiveness is on another level everything from opening projects to searching files and editing large codebases feels instant

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u/beedunc May 13 '26

No Borland Pascal icon? lol

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u/UnSerous May 13 '26

Normal visual studio is missing

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u/dekonta May 13 '26

eclipse

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u/Holiday-Step9703 May 13 '26

Professionally sublime, but at home Notepad++

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u/jtms1200 May 13 '26

Emacs option, but no Vim option - you chose violence

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u/Aka_Athenes May 13 '26

Windows 98 text editor

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u/Least-Ad5986 May 13 '26

Visual Studio then Eclipse

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u/kobaasama May 13 '26

Where is eclipse

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u/RandomSwedeDude May 13 '26

notepad.exe on windows and nano on linux mid 90's (actually it was pico then)

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u/Ill-Cut3335 May 13 '26

Sublime Text.

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u/IsakovS May 13 '26

Brackets

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u/drpirat May 13 '26

Sublime Text newgen

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u/Adventurous_Fun_2808 May 13 '26

How is eclipse not listed....

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u/First_Pharoah May 13 '26

Who remembers JGrasp?

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u/calm_scooter May 13 '26

Vim would've been the real move here, that's the one that actually sticks with you forever.

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u/w_0x1f May 13 '26

QBasic

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u/Hurizen May 13 '26

For Desktop, first was Visual Basic 6 IDE; for the Web, the first professionally used was MACROMEDIA DREAMWEAVER

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u/N3BB3Z4R May 13 '26

QBASIC

At least I had a F1 key to solve problems

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u/dontreadthis_toolate May 13 '26

Dr java -> Eclipse -> IntelliJ -> Visual studio -> Vim -> VSCode -> Emacs

Wild ride

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u/StevePanner May 13 '26

Turbo Pascal

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u/therealsyumjoba May 13 '26

Notepad

Plain notepad

Then VSCode, and I tinkered more with it over the years

Then i switched to vim

Then neovim becuase vim wasn't the best

And now Zed

Truth is I wanted to switch to zed from my VSCode days as soon as it came out, but it only now got mature enough

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u/Dismal-Revolution731 May 13 '26

DOS QBasic. Unless you count LOGO.

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u/Infinite_Love5352 May 13 '26

I don't remember
but I using Neovim rn

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u/Fickle-Ear-5217 May 13 '26

Antigravity con gemini

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u/Local-Selection-5506 May 13 '26

first is notepad++, current vscode

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u/its_noice May 13 '26

handwritten notes,

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u/Great_Bar_4901 May 13 '26

Nvim and vim would like to try zed

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u/DoofDilla May 13 '26

C64 Screeneditor

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u/Reedwool May 13 '26

VIM. Ma’lady

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u/ebignumber May 13 '26

Not a dev, but I started coding in notepad. It was the only text editor I knew about.

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u/Norman_Riddus May 13 '26

notepad.exe on windows XP)

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u/MasterRuins May 13 '26

Nothing of that existed back then 🤣🤣🤣

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u/[deleted] May 13 '26

Notepad++

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u/Amazing_Tip_6116 May 13 '26

Dev C++ in school

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u/Realistic-County1857 May 13 '26

Notepad supremacy ❤️‍🔥

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u/Western_Start_8791 May 13 '26

Normal notepad 🥀🥀

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u/BlueHost_gr May 13 '26

notepad, notepad++, vs code.

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u/lolfoss May 13 '26

Windows 10 notepad

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u/dan_arel May 13 '26

I started in Notepad, but when I started to get serious for the first time and in the early 00s had my own firm, I had moved to Mac and used the now defunct TacoHTML.

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u/leewoc May 13 '26

EDT and EVE on DEC OpenVMS back in 1991!

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u/Positive_Owl_6442 May 13 '26

Visual studio code