Wondering which one you all prefer. Personally I’ve been using sublime text as it’s what I’m most used to, since it’s what I used when I messed around in Love2D (a LUA engine). I also use it because, in my case, things like MonoDevelop and Visual Studio take AGES to launch. I by no means have a bad computer but they just take sooooo long, i prefer the instant launch of sublime.
I’m sure most of you are Visual Studio/Mono Develop users, but I’m still curious what you use and, most importantly, why?
A combination of Visual Studio and Script Inspector 3. Visual Studio is my preferred choice but if you plan on using it you absolutely must have an SSD. Without an SSD my load times were at least a minute, but with an SSD the load times are at most a few seconds. Other specs like processor, memory, etc don’t impact it anywhere near as much as an SSD.
Script Inspector 3 is my choice for making very quick modifications to scripts because it runs directly inside of Unity. If you lack an SSD this is about the only way to retain normal IDE features.
Now, if you seriously want an ultra-lightweight text editor, use Notepad++ (Although it doesn’t has debug options, i mainly use it for making mods). For unity i basically use MonoDevelop.
Visual Studio Code has become my primary editor for just about any language. Go, all web script and markup (including TypeScript), markdown, C#, Lua and other scripts. Just about the only thing I still use the big IDEs for is C++, which I don’t do much of lately.
The info page on Unity support:
(Also check out the debugger extension linked from there!)
It’s very lightweight and has the bonus of being cross-platform. If you switch between any combination of Linux, macOS and Windows like me, you have pretty much the same environment everywhere.
It keeps getting better, and some of the important extensions for different languages (even non-MS ones) are developed in-house, and the devs are very responsive to bug reports.
