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> The idea that VSCode is the future doesn't seem right to me. VS Code is the future of editors, not IDEs or all developing. There will always this two sides w
by slightwinder 6y ago
> The idea that VSCode is the future doesn't seem right to me.
VS Code is the future of editors, not IDEs or all developing.
There will always this two sides which live from the box and those who build their own box. And for the later VS Code is nowadays one of the best road to walk.
> JetBrains products allow you to do so much out of the box,
It's also very limited on where you can work with it. It works for the handful most popular languages they support, but what if you get a bit more exotic? What if need something non-programming, like markdown, rst or plantuml? What if I am not satisfied with a certain feature in the IDEs editor or workflow?
If your Box is not supporting it, you need to customize it, and there JetBrains is just not as good as editors like VS Code, vim, emacs.. And VS Code even goes to great lengths to gain the IDE-state of having everything out of the box.
- thrashh 6y agoThen you install the plugin for Markdown, rst or PlantUML into IntelliJ? ????
- slightwinder 6y agoYes, that's the point. For everything outside the box you need to install a Plugin for IntelliJ too. So there is no difference in that regard. But there is a difference in culture and availability between a box-driven community and a plugin-driven community. The plugin-culture has more likely a good plugin for something exotic than the box-culture. For example, searching for mermaid (popular diagram-tool for markdown) in InteliJ-Plugins I only found one commecial plugin that I need to pay for. So it seems here already is a popular corner which is not well covered in this box-culture. And we always can go deeper there, toward more exotic stuff. For VS Code I immidiatly found a dozen tools BTW.
- pirocks 6y agoJust wanted to let you know that all those file types have support. Markdown and rst via the official markdown plugin, and plantuml via a free(in both senses of the word) third part plugin.