Ask HN: What is an "outdated" tool or plugin that you refuse to switch from/why?
In the age of github stars being inflated and people jumping ship to ship between mainstream projects, I'm curious to hear other's opinions.
In the age of github stars being inflated and people jumping ship to ship between mainstream projects, I'm curious to hear other's opinions.
All the cool kids are on VScode or Cursor, but I still use and love my boring old Jetbrains IDEs every day. It makes me feel old every time I see someone else's screenshot and realize I am pretty much the only one in all the companies I've ever worked for who likes Jetbrains. Too bad! It's a great IDE.
The main reason I keep using it is that the search files is so much faster and I like being able to edit lines in the search results. The other killer built-in feature is the Git "Resolve conflicts..." which other tools have, but not built into the editor. And for RubyMine, Show definition works more often than with any other editor I've seen.
https://openmtp.ganeshrvel.com/
I still depend heavily on textfx npp plugins for many mundane tasks, such as quickly sorting a few lines in a text file and I have not bothered to find a replacement so far, like in almost 2 decades hehehe
https://cog.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Super simple tool that I use for everything from project templating to code generation to LLM driven docs.
I like Sublime Text because it's fast, has multiple cursors. And it's pretty. It's redundant with Obsidian but it just feels good.
None of the tools I use are actually outdated. If they were, I'd stop using them. However, I have no idea what would be considered "outdated" by the standards of most HN readers, so I can't actually answer this question.
vim tbh, grep, awk, bash