Ask HN: What is an "outdated" tool or plugin that you refuse to switch from/why?

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by simojo • 1 year ago

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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.

needcontainers• 1 year ago

https://cog.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Super simple tool that I use for everything from project templating to code generation to LLM driven docs.

muzani• 1 year ago

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.

alexitosrv• 1 year ago

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

solardev2• 1 year ago

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.

karmakaze• 1 year ago

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.

dcminter2• 1 year ago

I very very reluctantly moved from Eclipse IDE to IntelliJ IDEA. I still feel like the migration was three steps forward two steps back. (edit) IDEA is a perfectly nice IDE, don't get me wrong, I just don't really see why it got all the love back in the day.

On a similar note I vastly prefer Maven for my own Java based projects; I despise Gradle as being strictly inferior.

solardev2• 1 year ago

I never used Eclipse so can't speak to that, but compared to VScode, it's got a lot of great built-ins: symbol lookup and searches work well, Typescript support is great, the debugger works well, built-in Gutlens-style version control GUI, a good 3-way diff and merge tool, linters, refactoring tools, etc. Also database browser, diagrammer, multi language support...

Most of that is also available in some form with VScode plug-ins, but I prefer Jetbrains's monolithic approach with batteries included. It's what I want from my IDE (everything out of the box).

And aren't Maven and Gradle build tools, not IDEs? (Sorry for the noob question; JS dev here)

hiAndrewQuinn• 1 year ago

vim tbh, grep, awk, bash

JohnFen• 1 year ago

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.

codegladiator• 1 year ago

https://openmtp.ganeshrvel.com/

baddate• 1 year ago

xbrowsersync

Ask HN: What is an "outdated" tool or plugin that you refuse to switch from/why?

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