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This is basically why I end up going back to Emacs. It's waaaaay too easy to start writing functions and the built-in help system (with docstrings almost everyw
by omouse 8y ago
This is basically why I end up going back to Emacs. It's waaaaay too easy to start writing functions and the built-in help system (with docstrings almost everywhere for every function and variable) is invaluable.
Though I'm beginning to wonder if JavaScript-based extensions in VS Code can match the power of Emacs code. Are there plugins that connect to Postgres? or do what Org-mode does?
- mr_overalls 8y agoI know it's an oft-repeated gripe here, but Javascript has so many bizarre warts that I'd never trust it to configure my personal computing environment. https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
- omouse 8y agoWith TypeScript it's basically like Emacs-Lisp in terms of the volume of warts, if not in the same space of bizarreness.
- 5166cc9c39fa61 8y agoI would take elisp over TypeScript any day. The tooling around TypeScript is hot garbage, debugging async code is a huge time waster, and things that are trivial with dynamic binding turn into major undertakings because of the module system. Also the verbosity and reams of boilerplate.
- zokier 8y ago> Are there plugins that connect to Postgres? Seems so. https://github.com/Borvik/vscode-postgres https://github.com/Borvik/vscode-postgres
- taude 8y agoThere is a watered down version of org-mode for VSCode. I still prefer the Emacs variety, though. Especially once you tweak out org-capture and custom templates....