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I haven't had the chance to try the Rust language mode, but I've been using VS Code for all my julia development lately, and I'm pretty impressed. It's quite a

I haven't had the chance to try the Rust language mode, but I've been using VS Code for all my julia development lately, and I'm pretty impressed. It's quite a nice editor. I avoided using it for a very long time because I thought it'd match Atom's slowness due to their shared Electron heritage. But for some reason VS Code feels a lot snappier. Not quite Sublime levels, but perfectly usable.

look_lookatme 9y ago
[Hijacking to talk about VS Code in general] Moved to VS Code last week. Coming from JetBrains products, the performance is wonderful. On the other hand the quality of language plugins varies quite a bit, though I've gotten the debuggers and jump to definition to work in PHP and Python. Oddly go to definition can be janky in Javascript [1]. There's also a very nice plugin called vscode-journal [2] that works great for quick logging tasks and notes. Compared to the JetBrains products I am not a fan of the Git interface, but I think Atom shining in this respect could motivate VS Code to provide a more coherent SCM interface. I am happy to be back to one-editor-to-rule-them-all. For years I used Emacs, but after using the JetBrains language specific IDEs with quality debuggers built in, I gravitated to them. VS Code seems to strike a fine middle ground. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/19942 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/19942 [2] https://github.com/pajoma/vscode-journal https://github.com/pajoma/vscode-journal
Amezarak 9y ago
Just curious, what are you system specs? I like VS Code and I've been using it for Rust projects, but I have lots of intermittent UI jankiness, where I will start typing and nothing will happen for up to a second or two. In addition UI operations in general are perceptibly (though not to me annoyingly) slower than a native application. It's not all the fault of extensions: all I had installed was Hg and the Rust extensions, and though the latter, particularly with RLS mode enabled, did make things worse, the problem's still there without them. To be fair, it's an older laptop (Core 2 Duo), but it has absolutely zero problem running Sublime or even full-on Visual Studio, and to me it's a little disappointing.

look_lookatme 9y ago

[Hijacking to talk about VS Code in general] Moved to VS Code last week. Coming from JetBrains products, the performance is wonderful. On the other hand the quality of language plugins varies quite a bit, though I've gotten the debuggers and jump to definition to work in PHP and Python. Oddly go to definition can be janky in Javascript [1]. There's also a very nice plugin called vscode-journal [2] that works great for quick logging tasks and notes. Compared to the JetBrains products I am not a fan of the Git interface, but I think Atom shining in this respect could motivate VS Code to provide a more coherent SCM interface. I am happy to be back to one-editor-to-rule-them-all. For years I used Emacs, but after using the JetBrains language specific IDEs with quality debuggers built in, I gravitated to them. VS Code seems to strike a fine middle ground. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/19942 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/19942 [2] https://github.com/pajoma/vscode-journal https://github.com/pajoma/vscode-journal

Amezarak 9y ago

Just curious, what are you system specs? I like VS Code and I've been using it for Rust projects, but I have lots of intermittent UI jankiness, where I will start typing and nothing will happen for up to a second or two. In addition UI operations in general are perceptibly (though not to me annoyingly) slower than a native application. It's not all the fault of extensions: all I had installed was Hg and the Rust extensions, and though the latter, particularly with RLS mode enabled, did make things worse, the problem's still there without them. To be fair, it's an older laptop (Core 2 Duo), but it has absolutely zero problem running Sublime or even full-on Visual Studio, and to me it's a little disappointing.