I shall not judge a developer's skill by their choice to use nano ...

How usable is nano as a code editor? I've never seen anyone doing it irl, but heard of some...

@Gauthier I used to use nano when I was in grade school because it was more... "straightforward" than vim, at least from my experience anyways, people use nano when they don't know how to use vim

@Gauthier it feels worse than notepad! The shortcuts are both unusual and counterintuitive and it doesn't reward you for learning them. I used it sometimes by accident on machines that had default text editor set to it. IMO you achieve work despite of nano not because of it. I am also strongly biased vim fanboy.

Trying so hard to be objective here... But... does nano even color syntax? Like any syntax. At all.

@Arlekin it seems to colour sources.list on Ubuntu. But then I install JOE, because out of the text-mode editors I know more of its commands.

I only use nano to edit config files when I'm sshed into something, otherwise it's atom

As Nano users, we try to bring simplicity in editing documents by not memorizing a mystical finger dance.

@rupj Nano for text, gdb for debug, Spyder for Dev. :)

@rupj well, when you ssh into some server and need to change some files then command line editor comes handy

Also...

"Real badasses use sed for all remote editing"