LinLog

It looks like my old go-to editor, Komodo IDE, is being retired. I find this slightly sad, since I was a Komodo Edit and Komodo IDE user for many years.  Of course, it's been several years since I used Komodo, but it still feels like a loss to see something you were once very invested in being put out to pasture.  Although it is good to see that ActiveState chose to open-source Komodo IDE rather than just letting it die, so bravo!

Of course, when you read the rationale, you can't really disagree.  The number of free, high-quality editors and IDEs makes "generic code editor" not exactly the best business to be in.  Especially when you're tied to an archaic, end-of-life framework like XUL.  And given that they don't exactly have a large team working on Komodo (never more than 4 people, according to the article), rewriting sounds like it would be a pretty huge effort.

Looking at my blog history and tag list, it seems I started using Komodo Edit some time before November of 2008, used that for several years, and then upgraded to Komodo IDE.  I posted about looking for a new IDE in March 2017.  So I was a Komodo user for 8+ years.  Not  bad run.  It was a good IDE for a long time.  Sadly, I was one of those people who didn't like the UI revamp that came out in version 10.

However, I was somewhat lucky in my timing, because by the time I dropped Komodo, Visual Studio Code had come out.  So I was starting to use Vim seriously in the era where language servers were becoming a thing.  The importance of the Language Server Protocol (LSP) for making "Vim as IDE" viable cannot be understated.  This makes things way easier and better.  All you need is a Vim plugin that speaks LSP (I use coc.nvim), and you can get all the same code intelligence that VS Code does.  That means you can get all of the goodness of Vim without having to sacrifice your intellisense.  It's a good time to be coding.