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VS Code is awesome. If you told me ten years ago my daily driver text editor on Linux would be a Microsoft product, well, you’d have been right. Sane defaults.

by koolba 6y ago

VS Code is awesome. If you told me ten years ago my daily driver text editor on Linux would be a Microsoft product, well, you’d have been right. Sane defaults. Snappy interface. Universal UI on multiple OSes that doesn’t suck. First class and best in class TypeScript support. It’s going to be hard to beat, now or five years from now.

BossingAround 6y ago
It's good for JS. It's ok for Golang, since there doesn't seem to be anything better that's free. But I still feel it's an editor trying to be IDE. I love it for markdown/asciidoc though.
- jhoechtl 6y ago
  Using NVim with go-vim, disabled gopls instead using gopls from native lsp. I am fine with that combo. Markdown on Vim requires fiddling with formatoptions but combined with live :MarkdownPreview in the browser while you type in Vim is fine and displays mermaid among many other markdown extensions.
  - RMPR 6y ago
    For markdown I don't use/need a plugin, with entr[0] and Pandoc you can emulate the live preview feature easily, without even needing a browser. 0: http://eradman.com/entrproject/ http://eradman.com/entrproject/
- Teknoman117 6y ago
  I'm a long time Linux user/developer, and I've completely switched to it for C++ on Linux. I've used vim and various simple text editors for a long time, but wow is VS Code nice. The Linux port of IntelliSense (at least for me) works more consistently than any of the of the code introspection tools plugins for vim I've tried. It works especially well if you're using CMake - it can pull all of the header paths out of the generated build system without you having to touch anything. (using Microsoft's C++ plugin and the vector-of-bool CMake plugin (which Microsoft took over development for))
  - abhijat 6y ago
    Have you tried out the vscode-clangd plugin?
kushalpandya 6y ago
My only problem with it is performance when you load large repos and occasionally large files because it is an Electron app eventually. I know the extension ecosystem has thrived just because it is Electron but I wish MS worked on a native editor to achieve it.
- stu2b50 6y ago
  See, I don't think that's possible. VSCode only has 10 or so employees full time. I don't think they could make a good text editor with this kind of dev speed on 3 different platforms natively. Sublime is great but it updates once every other blue moon for a reason.
  - laqq3 6y ago
    > Sublime is great but it updates once every other blue moon for a reason. I like both editors (VSCode and Sublime) and just want to point out that Sublime Text 4 is in semi-public alpha. It is "semi-public" in the sense that the download link is given in the Discord channel, but anybody could join it. For nine months or so, there has been a new release of ST4 every 2-3 weeks. Development is definitely ongoing (though I'm quite happy with ST3 as it is).
    - spurgu 6y ago
      What are the main selling points of v4 vs v3?
    - jopsen 6y ago
      I was a huge sublime fan, but it seems like the plugin eco-system moved on. At the end of the day, I go where the plugins are.
      - square_usual 6y ago
        (Not a sublime fanboy or anything, just curious) What kind of plugins do you use that aren't on sublime? I was reluctant earlier for the same reason, but after I installed sublime-lsp I didn't think I needed much more.
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by koolba 6y ago

BossingAround 6y ago

It's good for JS. It's ok for Golang, since there doesn't seem to be anything better that's free. But I still feel it's an editor trying to be IDE. I love it for markdown/asciidoc though.

jhoechtl 6y ago
Using NVim with go-vim, disabled gopls instead using gopls from native lsp. I am fine with that combo. Markdown on Vim requires fiddling with formatoptions but combined with live :MarkdownPreview in the browser while you type in Vim is fine and displays mermaid among many other markdown extensions.
- RMPR 6y ago
  For markdown I don't use/need a plugin, with entr[0] and Pandoc you can emulate the live preview feature easily, without even needing a browser. 0: http://eradman.com/entrproject/ http://eradman.com/entrproject/
Teknoman117 6y ago
I'm a long time Linux user/developer, and I've completely switched to it for C++ on Linux. I've used vim and various simple text editors for a long time, but wow is VS Code nice. The Linux port of IntelliSense (at least for me) works more consistently than any of the of the code introspection tools plugins for vim I've tried. It works especially well if you're using CMake - it can pull all of the header paths out of the generated build system without you having to touch anything. (using Microsoft's C++ plugin and the vector-of-bool CMake plugin (which Microsoft took over development for))
- abhijat 6y ago
  Have you tried out the vscode-clangd plugin?

kushalpandya 6y ago

My only problem with it is performance when you load large repos and occasionally large files because it is an Electron app eventually. I know the extension ecosystem has thrived just because it is Electron but I wish MS worked on a native editor to achieve it.

stu2b50 6y ago
See, I don't think that's possible. VSCode only has 10 or so employees full time. I don't think they could make a good text editor with this kind of dev speed on 3 different platforms natively. Sublime is great but it updates once every other blue moon for a reason.
- laqq3 6y ago
  > Sublime is great but it updates once every other blue moon for a reason. I like both editors (VSCode and Sublime) and just want to point out that Sublime Text 4 is in semi-public alpha. It is "semi-public" in the sense that the download link is given in the Discord channel, but anybody could join it. For nine months or so, there has been a new release of ST4 every 2-3 weeks. Development is definitely ongoing (though I'm quite happy with ST3 as it is).
  - spurgu 6y ago
    What are the main selling points of v4 vs v3?
  - jopsen 6y ago
    I was a huge sublime fan, but it seems like the plugin eco-system moved on. At the end of the day, I go where the plugins are.
    - square_usual 6y ago
      (Not a sublime fanboy or anything, just curious) What kind of plugins do you use that aren't on sublime? I was reluctant earlier for the same reason, but after I installed sublime-lsp I didn't think I needed much more.

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