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Ask HN: Good fast IDE for reading and navigating code in multiple languages

5 points by akkad33 ago | 7 comments

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?

roland35 |next [-]

Neovim is where it's at. You can use lazyvim which has tons of languages you can select to add LSPs for.

penpendian |root |parent [-]

well i am lazy and i dislike my experience of configuring astrovim

dv_dt |next |previous [-]

Lightest weight: bat and ripgrep

Though not a traditional ide

Alien1Being |next |previous [-]

Good, fast, easy for novices.

Choose two.

I use nvim and emacs.

akkad33 |root |parent [-]

Nvim 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 |root |parent [-]

I am speechless...

penpendian |next |previous [-]

antigravity

AlexSGlife |previous [-]

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