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)
Zed with ameba-ls and love it 
Previously VS Code.
Been using VS code for the last few years, but switched to Zed a few months ago.
I just need a fast/performant editor with highlighting, autosave, a mini-map, good find/replace and mouse support. LSP support is a nice to have, but only if it’s fast and has low ram usage.
I use helix editor. Still can’t get lldb-dap to work correctly for debugging on a Mac . Does anyone have this working
I’m using Emacs, with LSPs.
You’re kind of locked in when you end up writing a UI for the time tracker at work in your editor, to avoid the web version.
I use personally kate from KDE
I use Neovim with LazyVim and my custom plugin which bundles some stuff (tresitter parser, custom tresitter endwise grammar, ameba linting and autoformat on save).
Lacks LSP and ECR support for now, but gets job done for me
Moving to zed.dev + ameba-ls after more than 15y with Sublime Text
IMHO Zed is:
- lightweight as Sublime Text (no Electron with 100’s of MBs in RAM like VS Code)
- as capable (or more capable) than VS Code
New to crystal, and to the Forum. Hi
Also using zed.dev, and @antondalgren fork of cr-analyzer which has worked great!
@icosahedronsson Nice to meet you! I mainly use Zed too (+ Helix on Ghostty as well)