--- title: 30 Years of Trying Code Editors | daily.dev description: A developer's personal retrospective spanning 30 years of code editors, from QBasic and Dreamweaver as a kid, through Eclipse and TextMate as a CS student, to... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/30-years-of-trying-code-editors-72xmcysvh twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 30 Years of Trying Code Editors | daily.dev og:description: A developer's personal retrospective spanning 30 years of code editors, from QBasic and Dreamweaver as a kid, through Eclipse and TextMate as a CS student, to... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/30-years-of-trying-code-editors-72xmcysvh og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/72XmCySVH.png og:image:alt: 30 Years of Trying Code Editors og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 30 Years of Trying Code Editors **[Marc G Gauthier](https://daily.dev/sources/marcgg)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer's personal retrospective spanning 30 years of code editors, from QBasic and Dreamweaver as a kid, through Eclipse and TextMate as a CS student, to settling on Vim (MacVim) for the past decade. The post covers over 20 editors with brief impressions of each, and concludes with a look toward Neovim and continued XCode use for iOS development. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Is anyone still using Emacs?](https://daily.dev/posts/is-anyone-still-using-emacs--h5edbbhim) · Lobsters · 10 upvotes · 2 comments --- Tags: [#devtools](https://daily.dev/tags/devtools), [#xcode](https://daily.dev/tags/xcode), [#vim](https://daily.dev/tags/vim) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/30-years-of-trying-code-editors-72xmcysvh) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"30 Years of Trying Code Editors","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/30-years-of-trying-code-editors-72xmcysvh","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/30-years-of-trying-code-editors-72xmcysvh"},"datePublished":"2026-03-26T08:35:46.637Z","dateModified":"2026-03-26T08:36:37.736Z","description":"A developer's personal retrospective spanning 30 years of code editors, from QBasic and Dreamweaver as a kid, through Eclipse and TextMate as a CS student, to...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/3713b3328d63fe909187950e900750c6?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/3713b3328d63fe909187950e900750c6?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Marc G Gauthier","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Marc G Gauthier","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--P4lsZKFE--/f_auto,q_auto/v1774514113/logos/marcgg?_a=BAMAMiWQ0","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/marcgg"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/30-years-of-trying-code-editors-72xmcysvh","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"devtools,xcode,vim","timeRequired":"PT9M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Marc G Gauthier","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/marcgg"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"30 Years of Trying Code Editors"}]} ```