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All the responses to this comment seem to center around putting in many, many hours of work to get used to Vim or Emacs. I can't find a single comment about the
by TheRealDunkirk 11y ago
All the responses to this comment seem to center around putting in many, many hours of work to get used to Vim or Emacs. I can't find a single comment about the rejection of Sublime Text because it costs $60. That's the usual complaint against it. To which I say: If you're a professional programmer, how many hours of your time does that come to, for an editor that will make you more productive for years?
As someone who got through engineering school on green screens and vi, I eventually cobbled together a massive collection of Vim plugins... to make it work, essentially like ST, with a side bar, tabs, fuzzy searching, and all of that. Once I discovered ST, I was happy to pay the measly $60 whole dollars for a license which I could run on all 3 desktop platforms, across half a dozen computers.
VSCode magically fits this one narrow set of definitions to reshape the field of coding on Linux and Mac? Are you even serious, or is this just trolling? You're going to let the fact that it's closed source remove it from your list? I obstinately ran Linux on the desktop for 19 years, but I know a good, pragmatic deal when I see it, open source or not.