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Add to SafariWhen comparing Kakoune vs goormIDE, the Slant community recommends goormIDE for most people. In the question“What are the best JavaScript IDEs or editors?” goormIDE is ranked 23rd while Kakoune is ranked 27th. The most important reason people chose goormIDE is:
Goorm IDE is a cloud IDE, making it easy to sign into and code from anywhere.
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Pros
Pro Will be familiar to vim users
Kakoune first started as a rewrite from scratch of vim, but then ended up being another text editor altogether. So it's inspired in a lot of ways from vim.
Pro More modern than vim
Pro Good UNIX citizen
It follows the UNIX philosophy by doing one thing well (text editing) and interfaces nicely with other CLI tools.
Pro Text selection mechanism
Kakoune works on selections, which are oriented, inclusive range of characters, selections have an anchor and a cursor character. Most commands move both of them, except when extending selection where the anchor character stays fixed and the cursor one moves around.
Pro Very expressive
Kakoune provides a very expressive set of commands, including various objects selection (paragraph, blocks, words), alignment support, conditional selection filtering...
This set of command is expressive enough to implement all the provided auto indentation logic.
Pro Actively developed and supported
Pro Self-documenting
A helper pops up when typing commands.
Pro Simpler and more consistent than Vim
Some keys select, other keys operate on the selections. Shift is used to extend the selection, alt is used for alternative behavior, e.g. reverse the search direction. No inconsistencies like Y which means yy and not y$ in Vim.
Pro Cloud IDE
Goorm IDE is a cloud IDE, making it easy to sign into and code from anywhere.
Pro Supports most languages and frameworks
Goorm IDE has support for C, C++, Java, Js, python, ruby, node express, jquery, angular, and bootstrap. It even supports web server and integrated debuggger.
Pro Super easy
No more configurations, just a few clicks. It's fully ready to develop.
Pro Root access to shell
Goorm allows the user to access their shell as the root user, and SSH is also supported.
Cons
Con Small community
Con No real Windows support
Will compile under CygWin.
Con Default bindings do not play nice with OS X (Alt+???)
Con Written in C++
Con English is not the primary language
If you do a google search for Goorm IDE, much of the results are in Korean, which is the same with their social media. If you don't speak Korean, you may have difficulty finding more information on Goorm or asking for help/support.
Con Latency at times due to location
Likely the servers are in Korea which introuces a little Lag at times when usingthe terminal.
