Ben Overmyer
Ben Overmyer

@skysong@floss.social

Author of Iron Arachne, platform engineer, game designer

April 27, 2025

When a person makes art, it's rarely perfect on the first try. If it is, then that's the result of either blind luck or many, many years of experience.

An artwork is the result of a period of struggle, thought, and (most importantly) mistakes. All of that comes with complex emotions that can mess with the process, like angrily drawing a sharp line down the middle, only to discover that changes the piece and rolling with it.

This, I think, is the "soul" of art that AI misses.

I'd like to move away from using VS Code. I own a Sublime Text license, so that's an option. Kate is also an option, though I haven't really tested it as a lightweight IDE. I would prefer to avoid anything Electron-based or Java-based. I also am not opposed to learning to use Helix as an IDE.

What do you use for coding? What do you like about it?

#ide #coding

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