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Ask HN: Good fast IDE for reading and navigating code in multiple languages

1 points by akkad33 ↗ HN
With the use AI I find myself writing less and less code, but reading way more than before at work. I have been using IDEA, because in my experience no IDE offers code inspection and navigation as good as IDEA across multiple languages. But it's very slow and mostly geared towards refactoring and editing. I have used VScode and I found it lacking as it is also slow. Nvim is very close to what I want but it takes some getting used to. Which IDE do you use?

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Alien1Being
Good, fast, easy for novices.

Choose two.

I use nvim and emacs.

akkad33
Nvim is good but requires set up which now I delegate to Claude

Emacs feels too slow and not good if you have carpel tunnel syndrome

roland35
Neovim is where it's at. You can use lazyvim which has tons of languages you can select to add LSPs for.
penpendian
well i am lazy and i dislike my experience of configuring astrovim
dv_dt
Lightest weight: bat and ripgrep

Though not a traditional ide

skydhash
I use Emacs and ripgrep with the deadgrep plugin[0]. Emacs does have the `rgrep` command but the plugin presents a nicer interface. With no Emacs, I use `ripgrep` (sometimes with fd for the file candidates) and `less`.

I only bother with LSP for projects I'm currently working on. Even then, I sometimes use `project-find-regexp` for whole codebase search.

In Vim, I had the fzf plugin[1] with the command `:RG` bound to <leader>fg.

[0] https://github.com/Wilfred/deadgrep

[1]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf.vim

salvesefu
practically any ide built in the last 30 years can do what you need...from micro to zed.

what are you looking for exactly?

akkad33
I find all of them slow especially when 3 language servers are running