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I have had the same experience. VS Code looks like a fine lightweight text editor plus a marketplace of plugins with variable degree of maturity and interoperab

by gerash 6y ago

I have had the same experience. VS Code looks like a fine lightweight text editor plus a marketplace of plugins with variable degree of maturity and interoperability whereas IntelliJ is a mature and polished IDE. All IntelliJ lacks is two things: 1. Being a lightweight editor with syntax highlighting which IIUC they are / have already built 2. Remote development where the IDE is just the front end running on, say, a laptop and the computation runs on a remote work station

modernerd 6y ago
I prefer IntelliJ to VS Code but for me IntelliJ also lacks the ability to: Disable plugins on a per-project basis. (I currently put up with plugin exception reports for other language plugins in projects for unrelated languages.) Enable or update plugins without a full restart. (This is getting better but many plugins still need a full restart.) Sync all plugin settings (for example, AceJump plugin settings aren’t synced). Split the terminal pane horizontally. Open a file in a vertical split from the navigator or search everything box. (I want to believe I missed an easy way to do this; someone let me know if so!) Set alpha keyboard shortcuts in quicklists. Style the title bar colour on macOS to match the editor background. Write a quick script to add missing IDE functionality without boilerplate or build tooling. Add a command line run configuration. (There are workarounds but the original feature request remains open after 7 years: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-112256 https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-112256 ) I can do all of these in vim and Emacs and most in VS Code. They’re nitpicks and no editor or IDE is perfect. I think I feel the pain points with IntelliJ more acutely because for many of these I can’t fix them myself.

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I have had the same experience. VS Code looks like a fine lightweight text editor plus a marketplace of plugins with variable degree of maturity and interoperab

by gerash 6y ago

modernerd 6y ago
I prefer IntelliJ to VS Code but for me IntelliJ also lacks the ability to: Disable plugins on a per-project basis. (I currently put up with plugin exception reports for other language plugins in projects for unrelated languages.) Enable or update plugins without a full restart. (This is getting better but many plugins still need a full restart.) Sync all plugin settings (for example, AceJump plugin settings aren’t synced). Split the terminal pane horizontally. Open a file in a vertical split from the navigator or search everything box. (I want to believe I missed an easy way to do this; someone let me know if so!) Set alpha keyboard shortcuts in quicklists. Style the title bar colour on macOS to match the editor background. Write a quick script to add missing IDE functionality without boilerplate or build tooling. Add a command line run configuration. (There are workarounds but the original feature request remains open after 7 years: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-112256 https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-112256 ) I can do all of these in vim and Emacs and most in VS Code. They’re nitpicks and no editor or IDE is perfect. I think I feel the pain points with IntelliJ more acutely because for many of these I can’t fix them myself.