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I use pycharm professional (paid) because I do a lot of python. The JetBrains editors are pretty good and a 'sweet spot' in terms of functionality and usability. The python-code-related features really are helpful.

On 2021, I used these editors: vim gedit notepad++ atom VS Studio Code kate I like notepad ++ because in case of catastrophic failure, it does remember the contents of all files I was working on, even the changes I haven't saved yet. I had been using atom for several months, and I still like it so much. I used VS Studio Code for a while, but I am not still convinced of it. Right now, I am using kate and I feel it matches all my needs (except the great memory feature of notepad++, unfortunately) and I bet I will stick to it for a long while. I customized the default options and made it atom-like, but I feel I'm distilled open source and that makes me happy. Also, I love the icon set and the minimap. I abandoned atom because I didn't like the available mindmap addons.

I use atom and vim mainly. I tried codium for a bit, but I guess you really need vscode to run the various plugins to make it useful