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Please, elaborate how VSCode changed the way we write code on Unix? I mean, repeat your statement out loud and ask yourself how big statement you just said. No

Please, elaborate how VSCode changed the way we write code on Unix? I mean, repeat your statement out loud and ask yourself how big statement you just said. No way in hell how VSCode change the way we write code as much as you stated, no way even Atom did that. Like it or not TextMate came first, and soon after that Sublime Text took over. Yeah, like it or hate it, ST with it’s very well known default monokai theme changed most of the things in terms of GUI Editors for programming. I mean, what is going on, why people tend to blow VSCode out of the water about how good it is!? I mean, ok it is cool, has some really nifty features I would like to have in some X editor, but no way in hell it is as game-changing as people state. And I really can't see my self switching from Vim to VSCode. Even when I decide to use GUI Editor (I am not HC vim user, for some environments I use it, for others I don't), it is Sublime. I ditched Sublime for Atom since December, and on OS X, it is working very well. Not blazingly fast and smooth as Sublime, but it is far far better than before. But all in all I am not biting that Electron base for text editor. I mean ok, JS is cool, web is the future, flexible cross-platform solutions are the thing, but it still isn't comparable to native stuff. At least to me, it is getting there year by year but still a long way to go.

thejvexperience 11y ago
At work I write Scala and the IntelliJ Scala support is simply unbeatable. It's refactoring engine etc. is fully Scalafied -- when you paste Java code, there's even a "translate to Scala" function offered. I use a "vim mode" plugin that allows me to hope around with 25j and such. For my personal project (which is in Rust) I use Atom, which is new for me, but I find to be really impressive. Both its plugin system (which allow for all the extensibility and in my case Rust support) is fantastic, and I don't know where the complaints about speed come from (it's far lighter than IntelliJ, obviously). I've really been enjoying Atom when I do use it, and don't see why I'd switch to VSCode unless it had better support for Rust. But perhaps I'm missing something.
- EugeneOZ 11y ago
  Have you tried this plugin: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=saviorisdead.RustyCode https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=savioris... ?
- Philipp__ 11y ago
  While I find Atom really nice, and having growing sympathies for it, it definitely feels sluggish compared to Sublime. It is that 0.3-0.7 seconds that make a difference when we are talking about day to day tool usages. I am a bit turned off by VSCode, it's workflow by the looks of it feel strange to me. Yes I've tried it, yes it was in beta, but right now I am having only Vim on my Mac. Uninstalled Atom this morning, got a little bit frustrated. It just feels like a web app, I mean it basically is. And when I dragged it to AppCleaner, it is so heavy, 260MB+. I want GitHub to stream line it. If other were able (look at VSCode for example) that GitHub can. That things leaks memory very now and then. Sublime feels rock solid and blazingly fast compared to Atom, and there you see the difference between native and web. Those fractions of seconds are important when you have app like text editor, especially if used by developers and geeks. :)

thejvexperience 11y ago

At work I write Scala and the IntelliJ Scala support is simply unbeatable. It's refactoring engine etc. is fully Scalafied -- when you paste Java code, there's even a "translate to Scala" function offered. I use a "vim mode" plugin that allows me to hope around with 25j and such. For my personal project (which is in Rust) I use Atom, which is new for me, but I find to be really impressive. Both its plugin system (which allow for all the extensibility and in my case Rust support) is fantastic, and I don't know where the complaints about speed come from (it's far lighter than IntelliJ, obviously). I've really been enjoying Atom when I do use it, and don't see why I'd switch to VSCode unless it had better support for Rust. But perhaps I'm missing something.

EugeneOZ 11y ago
Have you tried this plugin: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=saviorisdead.RustyCode https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=savioris... ?
Philipp__ 11y ago
While I find Atom really nice, and having growing sympathies for it, it definitely feels sluggish compared to Sublime. It is that 0.3-0.7 seconds that make a difference when we are talking about day to day tool usages. I am a bit turned off by VSCode, it's workflow by the looks of it feel strange to me. Yes I've tried it, yes it was in beta, but right now I am having only Vim on my Mac. Uninstalled Atom this morning, got a little bit frustrated. It just feels like a web app, I mean it basically is. And when I dragged it to AppCleaner, it is so heavy, 260MB+. I want GitHub to stream line it. If other were able (look at VSCode for example) that GitHub can. That things leaks memory very now and then. Sublime feels rock solid and blazingly fast compared to Atom, and there you see the difference between native and web. Those fractions of seconds are important when you have app like text editor, especially if used by developers and geeks. :)