Tag: IDE

  • Visual Studio Code

    I’ve noticed Visual Studio Code in a few videos, and admired what a clean interface it had, and was impressed how opening a terminal window was automatically in the directory you were working in. I had a need to write some html/css, and some C++ in the last couple of days, so that seemed like…

  • Vim

    I’ve been working through the Missing Semester lectures from MIT, and recently completed the lecture about the Vim editor. Vim is a test editor, called from the command line, and optimised for programming – in the sense that it assumes most of the use of the editor is navigating around a big text file making…

  • Instant Errors

    I’m loving how, in XCode and Playgrounds, it’s constantly sort of compiling or interpreting in the background so errors are being flagged as you’re working. I tried to google the proper name for this but it’s clearly so unremarkable as to be un-remarked on. I guess maybe it’s a commonplace feature of modern IDEs, but…