03.28.2026 - I am VSCode/Codium's Bitch :S

Welp, it seems that I'll continue maintaining my web-space on Codium for now. I tried quick editing on Android, but its text editing ecosystem is still paltry with Xed being glitchy and Acode having poor Emmet support. I was curious about Gram, a de-assified fork of the Zen editor that I've been seeing hype on online, but besides being annoyed at having to install Rust and the "build-essentials" package and stereotypical Linux magic just to get the Emmet extension installed successfully, it still was like Acode where it seemed to have poor Emmet support anyways. Maybe Neovim will work even better, with how efficient its modal editing is, though it does not feel the best when used on Termux, plus I'll need to see how to get it configured for Emmet and HTML editing. Meanwhile, VSCode and its de-assified counterpart Codium just has Emmet support out-of-the-box, and I only needed minor shortcut configuration to get more advanced features like "Wrap with Abbreviation" up-and-running.

Maybe I can deal with no Emmet in an absolute sense. People in the 90s have written HTML in Microsoft Notepad, after all (god have mercy upon their souls). Still, it's kinda shit writing HTML without Emmet, and I don't wanna give that up. For instance, what ususally takes multiple seconds of writing boilerplate can be fully written with a mere "!" shortcut, and "Wrap with Abbreviation" can remove bunches upon bunches of elements while also creating entire nested and filled lists like it's nothing. I know that for the rest of you, this sounds like just me complaining about extremely niche webshit, but Emmet is just too useful to pass up for me.

Besides, Codium continues to work so well for me, especially when it comes to ethics, that I'm fine if I cannot switch away from it. VSCode is already solid as a text editor, but Codium removes the bullshit telemetry and Copilot clankershit, and it's fully open-source compared to VSCode still having some proprietary elements. Ultimately, trying out other text editors was interesting, but when it comes to doing what I need, I feel better off just sticking to the Codium that I know and rely on.