What os? What ide? What plug-ins?
Linux (Debian) with neovim. Telescope and Treesitter and the big plugins I use but I use a bunch of other smaller ones as well.
At my last job I did a bunch of Rust, this job I do mostly Go.
A messy bedroom.
It varies a bit, but
OS: Win11
IDE: Jetbrains IDEs (Rider, intellij, Webstorm) with a side of notepad++ and vscode, primarily for notes, Snippets and misc file types
Shell: PowerShell 7
Git: builtin for jetbrains tools and otherwise my own custom PowerShell wrapper on git cli
Macos M1 Pro, Tmux + zsh, Neovim Full stack developer, not gaming
Debian, awesome wm.
For work I use IntelliJ
For personal projects in Rust wezterm + Neovim + mix of different plugins
Arch Linux, hyprland/quickshell
Kitty/konsole
VSCodium (+ a very few plugins) / Kate
Varies a bit with job, but by far the most in the last 15 years:
Linux (Debian), Emacs, tiling window manager (i3/sway/stumpwm), also gollum wiki + org-mode for writing docs. For small quick edits, I use vim.
On the job, I write mostly C++/Python/Go/Rust, at home more Rust, Python, and the Lisps.
What do you use rust for?
NixOS, fish, tmux, Helix
Arch + i3wm/sway + Tmux + Neovim
Ditto, pretty much.
Win 11, WSL Ubuntu, VSCode (into WSL), Git Graph, Rust stuff, typescript stuff
All dev is in WSL. Windows native for games and Firefox and chat apps
At work window 11 - powershell - coder - Debian - tmux - nvim
At home (nixos|arch) > tmux > nvim > most used aside of standard LSP and co, neogit, mini.files, trouble
Windows 10 with all dev work done in Ubuntu using WSL. Using vscode with the wsl extension.
Before I migrated to Linux I used to do this until I got tired of windows killing WSL without any warning
Linux
Distrobox container
Code OSS
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clangd (always have to change compile commands path because $workspacefolder variable varies per machine even on the same project, it will just choose a subfolder sometimes)
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nrfconnect suite (it has some extra checks for .dts files and a nice GUI)
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embedded flash plugins/programs like jlink, Stmcubeprogrammer, etc…
Serial Studio
Logic 2 / Sigrok pulseview
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- NixOS + Home Manager
- Niri
- Kitty
- Neovim, via Neovide
For work it’s Fedora + Home Manager because the remote admin software doesn’t support NixOS. Thankfully I’ve been able to define my dev environment almost fully in a Home Manager config that I can use at work and at home.
I use lots of Neovim plugins. Beyond the basic LSP and completion plugins, some of my indispensables are:
- Leap for in-buffer navigation & remote text copying
- Oil for file management
- Fugitive + Git Signs + gv.vim + diffview.nvim for git integration
- nvim-surround to add/change/remove delimiters
- vim-auto-save
- kitty-scrollback
What is Home Manager?
Home Manager is a Nix tool for managing configuration for a single user, usually on a Linux or MacOS system, or possibly WSL. You configure installed programs, program configuration (such as dot files), and a number of other things, and you get a reproducible environment that’s easy to apply to multiple machines, or to roll back configuration, etc. I find it helpful for having a clear record of how everything is set up. It’s the sort of thing that people sometimes use GNU Stow or Ansible for, but it’s much more powerful.
A Home Manager configuration is very similar to a NixOS configuration, except that NixOS configures the entire system instead of just configuring user level stuff. (The lines do blur in Nix because unlike traditional package managers where packages are installed at the system level, using Nix packages can be installed at the system, user, project, or shell session level.) Home Manager is often paired with NixOS. Or on Macs Home Manager is often paired with nix-darwin. As I mentioned, the Home Manager portion of my config is portable to OSes other than NixOS. In my case I’m sharing it in another Linux distro, but you can also use Home Manager to share configurations between Linux, MacOS, and WSL.
Windows + Visual Studio :(
Unfortunately, the alternatives are really lacking. JetBrains Rider REALLY feels underbaked. No deal-breaking issues, but lots of little low-impact ones, and lots of design decisions that go against common conventions, for no apparent reason. The “Visual Studio Mode” doesn’t really help.
On top of that, I’ve had several issues with RUNNING Rider, on account of being on Bazzite, an immutable distro. It was fine on Mint, but Mint had its own troubles with my NVidia card.
That’s what I mostly use too
😂
I share this pain :(







