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jetbrains works for me in a way those others do not. vim and emacs are non starters. vscode is plugin hell. jetbrains just works out of the box.
by denimnerd42 5y ago
jetbrains works for me in a way those others do not. vim and emacs are non starters. vscode is plugin hell. jetbrains just works out of the box.
- sethhochberg 5y agoSometimes good enough defaults are really good enough. There definitely was a time in my career (admittedly before VSCode and some of the other cool new kids on the editor block even existed) where I obsessed over vim plugins and macros and themes - but these days I love that consistent out of the box experience, too. Plus the IDEA has DataGrip embedded, and I love having a good database client right alongside the code I'm looking at. As I've gotten older my whole philosophy with tech has shifted towards not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good, editors/IDEs included.
- foepys 5y agoVSCode has also the problem that sometimes plugins work, and sometimes they just don't. Live Share for example logs me out at random times, cannot connect, or cannot find files on the remote computer. The same kind of inconsistencies appear in the Angular plugin which sometimes finds definitions, sometimes it doesn't; it's basically roulette if I can use the jump to definition or find references functions today. With JetBrains' products I get everything out of one hand and it just works. The IDE gets out of my way and I can focus on developing. If something doesn't work I can create an issue and it will be taken seriously.