What IDE do you use and why? I use VS CODE with all crystal extensions.

I use Geany like @darenw , and I am considering using a Qt-based text editor like Kate with scry/LSP . My main needs are: Fast, quick startup, light, general-purpose text editor (editing source code, files in archives, random files etc) Integrates well on my Desktop ( Qt is a nice plus for support…

Crystal support in VSCode works well for you? For me it don’t works half the time, it’s not practical without a good auto-completion, and additionally (but very useful) go to definition and outline.

vim. Of all the available options, it gives me the most flexibility and speed.

yeah, for me, auto-completion is very important feature.

Install scry and it should start working better.

Yeah, vim and emacs have better plugins for crystal right now, I’m trying to figure out a way to improve VSCode plugin, Scry is a good alternative to get more features, although it still requires a lot of work to be full complain to the Microsoft Language Server Protocol Specification . VSCode exten…

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I use Emacs without an LSP for everything, including Crystal. That’s how I’ve done for 20+ years so I’m just used to it.

Also chiming in here to make sure us simpler folks don’t get lost in the crowd ;-) I use vim for everything, with a very limited number of plugins.

I wanted to use Crystal, so I installed Visual Studio 2022 on two of my personal computers. I never used Visual Studio itself — I only needed the build tools. (MinGW crystal became available only recently)

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