Really nice of him to spend time on OSS tools for VSCode. On the other hand, I feel like the IDEs lugins can do most of these things for me without plugins. I

Really nice of him to spend time on OSS tools for VSCode. On the other hand, I feel like the IDEs lugins can do most of these things for me without plugins. I feel less need to install plugins for their products. And the one plugin that I use in IntelliJ is something I wrote for fun and which doesn't help at all with development. (It shows a random XKCD comic each time I open a new project.) But it's nice that there is a free IDE available with a rich ecosystem! As a student, I had to deal with Eclipse / Netbeans which seems to me to have been a worse experience than VSCode is these days. EDIT: fixed some typos.