Editor recommendations for new users.

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 10:05:29 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
> So I will be doing a workshop on programming for the biology 
> department at my university and I was wondering what would best 
> suit the users.
>
> The following are a must:
>     support windows & mac ( the more consistent between the two 
> the better)
>     free
>     no large install footprint, preferably simple install 
> procedure (running on laptops)
>     syntax highlighting
>     straightforward to use
>
> anything else is a bonus.
>
> Whats your experience with what you use?
>
> Many thanks
> Nic

I only use vim, including the GUI version when I was on Windows a 
couple years ago, but I recently saw this blog post that suggests 
Sublime would be a good choice for noobs, who might be 
overwhelmed by vim's learning curve and want a more GUI-like 
experience:

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/why-i-still-use-vim-67afd76b4db6