Well, I don’t know a single programming language well enough yet 🙂

It always trips me up when I’m switching between Python and say, Javascript. Python’s syntax is so wildly different to everything else. The main reason I was interested in React Native was having a single codebase, as you say. It would be a real pain to keep two codebases in sync, especially with the haphazard way I write things at the moment…

Code sharing wasn’t something I’d thought of, but that’s a pretty neat benefit, too.

vanilla ViM

I’ve always wanted a really portable Vim setup, so I’ve stuck to the built-in features for a long time. Hell, I used netrw for a year until I got really annoyed by the keybindings and general sluggishness. I’m still new to programming, so I don’t know what IDE features I’m missing! I learned git, Vim, and bash long before I did any real programming, haha. I guess I’m more experienced at system administration. Syntax highlighting would be useful though I know Vim already does some of that for some languages.

My init.vim is 40 lines. The main thing is setting shortcuts to change the spellchecker from American to British English and back again.

Technically, Lightworks is a competent video editing tool and it was used for some Hollywood movies like Pulp Fiction. So if you’re willing to learn a different workflow, that is a professional tool that has better support than DaVinci Resolve for GNU/Linux. Nuke, Autodesk Maya, and other VFX/3D tools usually have GNU/Linux versions, but those aren’t prosumer—they are firmly professional, which is why a license costs like $6K a year.

The major ones that don’t have professional counterparts yet are Photoshop, inDesign, and After Effects (if you can’t get along with Nuke, Natron, or Blackmagic Fusion as a replacement, which I can’t 🙂). I would say Inkscape is a decent replacement for Illustrator, though I don’t do much vector work. It helps that .eps is a really good exchange format. GIMP is slowly getting to the point where I would consider it to have feature parity with Photoshop at an essential level. Namely, non-destructive editing (3.0 is close, and surely 3.2 can’t be that far away). And unfortunately, it doesn’t matter how good of a replacement Scribus is for inDesign, because I need to deal with the .indd format. I’ll need to wait for a web version of that.

Really, if Adobe supported GNU/Linux, I would be good. I don’t see After Effects ever going to the web or supporting my operating system of choice, unfortunately, but everything else is fair game. I’m of course happy to be proven wrong.