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VSC has revolutionized how I code on Linux. Thank you, Microsoft!
by mkaziz 11y ago
VSC has revolutionized how I code on Linux. Thank you, Microsoft!
- pil4rin 11y agocorporate shill /s
- mkaziz 11y agoI'm actually a pretty hard core Linux user who avoids M'soft products when possible, but it's hard to deny I good IDE when I see one. I've never been able to navigate emacs/vim with ease, and sans them, I've never heard of a highly touted, Linux-friendly IDE.
- saiya-jin 11y agoeclipse doesn't suit your needs?
- ethbro 11y ago(Just chiming in my $.02) Eclipse, I guess because of the plug-in architecture, always felt a bit "left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing" to me. Sure, it works, but I wouldn't say it's something I like to use.
- laumars 11y agoEclipse is a Visual Studio competitor, not Visual Studio Code. The former is the classic full blown IDE (like the Borland IDE's of old), the latter is a more a feature rich text editor (competitors being Sublime Text, Kate, Notepad++, Brackets and Atom - to name only a small few popular examples)
- _yy 11y agoIntelliJ! (and PyCharm, WebStorm, etc.)
- tlarkworthy 11y agoI just switched as the typescript plugin is slow for the idea family. The code ide is FAST
- YngwieMalware 11y agoIntelliJ's new subscription platform is really really bad/misguided/tone-deaf
- mnx 11y agoDid you see the updated version with the fallback licences? seems very fair to me.
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- stoolpigeon 11y agoI'm struggling to understand how you are a hard core Linux user yet you've never heard of a good Linux IDE. KDevelop? Eclipse? Netbeans? KomodoIDE? Anything from JetBrains? And I don't even know what might be available on the Gnome side. Then there are all the great editors that sit right on the verge of being IDEs once you configure - Kate, KomodoEdit, Sublime Text and so many more. Personally the look at VS Code made me think it's an editor not an IDE but maybe that's changed.
- mkaziz 11y agoI've tried Eclipse, Netbeans, Komodo IDE, Geany, and found them either too clunky and unusable on my older machine, or too barebones with little intellisense. I did start using Sublime Text once, but didn't stick it out long enough to get used to it. I haven't tried the JetBrains products, to be fair.
- jacobush 11y agoJetbrains really is great. It's like Eclipse, without the bugs and faster. For Python, nothing beats Wings IDE. Both proprietary tho.
- criddell 11y agoYou prefer Wings over PyCharm?
- shaneofalltrad 11y agoI have the same question, what makes wings better than pycharm?
- timrichard 11y agoDefinitely worth a try... On two recent jobs, I used my regular WebStorm IDE but was also required to use VS for certain tasks. I much preferred the Jetbrains IDE, and I don't think it's just down to familiarity as I would seek out equivalent workflows in VS.
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- shmerl 11y agoKDevelop is quite good.
- appleflaxen 11y agoI love kdevelop
- mixmastamyk 11y agoOthers have mentioned the heavyweights, so thought I'd like to mention a lightweight favorite of mine that is getting better every release: Geany.
- krisdol 11y agoThere is so much wrong with this comment, I don't understand how it's being up votes. Never heard of a Linux IDE? Hard core Linux user but never been able to even navigate vim?
- technomancy 11y agoDrRacket and Zerobrane are both extremely high-quality, though not general-purpose.
- gilbertw1 11y agoThat's a combination of words I never thought I'd see together.
- qyv 11y agoThe cross-platform aspect is very nice IMO. Being able to feel at home on all 3 major platforms is great!
- tosseraccount 11y agoThat requires proprietary libraries your users can't install. MS, Apple and Android have no incentive to make your programs easily portable. They've gone to extreme lengths to make it hard.
- koenigdavidmj 11y agoJust down the page is the opposite statement, "Who cares, VS Code is nothing more than a fancy text editor. Not and [sic] IDE." They missed the point, but you are just factually wrong.
- haimez 11y agoIt's so easy to pile on since this post is already almost invisible, but this sounds like Richard Stallman's throwaway. The point isn't that it's proprietary, it's that it's an effective tool to use. Also, we're talking about the fact that it is being open sourced so I think your comment is coming from a place of hurt. Who hurt you, bro? Was it Bill? Show me on this doll where Bill hurt you.
- rlopezcc 11y agoThe shilling is strong with this one.
- tptacek 11y agoThat's an argument that was good for upvotes on Slashdot, but not on HN. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=author:dang%20shill&sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?query=author:dang%20shill&sort=byDat...
- bmurphy1976 11y agoCould you elaborate? I've toyed with it, but Sublime works pretty damn well for me so I saw little reason to switch. What about it is so revolutionary for you?
- thalesmello 11y agoFor me, a lot of things simply make more sense. For example, in Sublime, the system configuration files can be modified, but you shouldn't do that. Instead, you have to write on your user settings. On VSCode, you can't modify the system files, and there is a handy reminder and shortcut at the top of the site that configuration files should go in the user settings. Also, I like the way it handles open files (they are held on a workspace area where you can discard changes) and it also come with git integration. You can rely on plug-ins to do this kind of work on sublime, but you have to put a lot more effort in configuring it, whereas VSCode comes with better packages right off the box.
- coldtea 11y agoSeveral things. Integrated debugger. Built-in autocompletion that just works (at least for C# and JS that I've checked). Already up to parity with ST3 (which I use daily) for a lot of things, and updated on a monthly basis by a large-ish team. Now open Source.
- ozim 11y agoSecond that, I was writing load testing scripts in Python on Ubuntu. I was like Vim + git in console and then I thought, since I am .NET dev, could I install VSC on Ubuntu and I could and it was awesome.