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[–] placebo@piefed.zip 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Neovim. It's painful at the beginning, but I'm getting more confident and productive. IMO, it's worth it if you're into CLI.

I also considered JetBrains products and Zed.

Speed and battery consumption are important to me, and JetBrains is too monstrous to satisfy these criteria. Besides, JetBrains doesn't really offer a basic code editor that you can extend with plugins. IntelliJ IDEA is meant to be like that, but it's a huge Java IDE whether you need it or not.

Zed looked good, but I decided not to invest my time into another code editor with paid features - they tend to enshittify over time.