Recommendations for good editors/IDEs that will live for 30 years

Question

The news today about archiving Atom project saddens me. I moved away from Atom to VScode a long time ago but what if VScode is archived someday. What if I was still tied to Atom? I can't imagine the disruption it is gonna cause in my development workflow.As someone who days software programming day and night, I am looking for recommendations on good editors/IDEs that will live for another 30 years or more. I don't want to wake up one day and find out that my favorite editor is getting archived! Recommendations?

jstx1 · Accepted Answer

Logevity seems like a bad single parameter to optimise for. Pick the one you like the most and use it as long as it's available (and as long as you still like it).
> I don't want to wake up one day and find out that my favorite editor is getting archived!
The alternative is to never use your favourite editor in the first place, and I can't see how that's better. And it's not like there's a high switching cost, unless you're using something with an actual learning curve like emacs or vim, the transition to another editor/IDE is near instant.

lamarcke · Answer

I would recommend Vim/Neovim for you, but that can go both ways: learn Vim enough, develop the vim muscle memory, and you are stuck on Vim forever! Seriously, switching would from Vim is really hard, that's why so many people refuse to do it, even if they have to.TL;DR: 30 years is a very, very long time, i don't even know if we will still be using code editors in 30 years, and the hardware will probably evolve in a way that lets you run big IDEs like Jetbrains' in low-end systems.