It sounds like the app you wrote is doing 99% of the work. And I’m guessing it was written in C, which means it’s an x86 binary and could theoretically run on any x86 system.
Modern Windows actually has a lot of problems running older software. In some cases, the only way to get those applications working again is using Wine on Linux.
Desktop crashes, oh there goes all my applikations that I started
I’m using KDE with a 1080ti. My desktop regularly crashes (it’s some hardware issue, pretty sure my 1080ti is on its way out). I never lose any of my open applications. All that happens is the wallpaper goes black, the panels disappear. Then about 5 seconds later the wallpaper and panels reload like nothing happened. Sometimes a panel widget will be “stuck” in a loading state, but opening then closing its settings refreshes it.
Aside from that no issues. And no crashing on any of my other systems with KDE.
Writing the code itself is very similar to using an IDE: with very little config effort, you have stuff like autocomplete, syntax highlighting, LSP errors, function signature hints, ‘jump to definition’, git integration, etc
I get that. What I’m referring to is the process of “getting used to” neovim. Every time I’ve tried it, I end up reverting back to an IDE because I’m faster there due to familiarity and comfort.
With recent AI tools (a lot of which, at the end of the day, are CLI tools), the delta between neovim and a full IDE has shrunk further because (for better or worse, probably for worse) people are doing less of the actual coding.
I wouldn’t be so sure. I’ve been using various LLM coding agents on my personal project as a way to not do the boilerplate stuff (since I have very little free time), and my biggest takeaway is that outside of smaller snippets I don’t want them touching anything else. I’ve had so many instances where they completely change up a struct (by removing members and adding completely new ones) for zero reason. Other times I give explicit instructions to not change a specific file or remove specific variables, and it just does it anyways.
The real issue is that LLMs are incapable of considering the larger picture at a conceptual level, and frequently introduce new bugs.
The one place I will say I have found LLMs the most useful is writing HTML/CSS/JS. I personally don’t like writing those and LLMs seem to be best at that.
The few times I’ve had an agent refactor larger portions of code resulted in the code being barfed out in a way that took me more time to untangle and clean up, than if I just did the refactor myself.
Ok, seriously question. How does one go from using a full featured IDE like Jetbrains’ stuff to something like neovim? Every time I’ve tried I’ve lost patience. I do use vim itself all the time (it might even be multiple times each hour). But I can’t seem to bridge that gap to do full development in it.
For context, my day job involves working on a fairly large C#/Angular codebase that extremely messy, poorly laid out, and in constant need of fixing.
My side project is a somewhat small, but rapidly growing, rust application.
I know what you mean. All I was saying is that the binary would execute on an x86 processor regardless of the OS. Now the OS knowing what to do with it is another matter.
This is actually what Wine does, it’s a translation layer that intercepts the Win APIs and converts it to a Linux API and vice versa. The actual binary runs on the processor just the same.