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My biggest concern about this editor is actually the lack of cross-platform support. At our company, developers use a mix of Linux desktops, Windows PCs and Mac
by hankman86 5y ago
My biggest concern about this editor is actually the lack of cross-platform support. At our company, developers use a mix of Linux desktops, Windows PCs and Macs. And I think that’s actually an asset. Why force everyone onto the same platform? Developers know best what technical setup they are most productive with. Not to mention that being able to share settings and launch configurations across platforms is a big plus in favour of VSCode.
I totally get the performance argument. That’s why I will never use a Java-based IDE again. Like JetBrains IDEs are just painfully slow where every key stroke has this additional lag before something appears on screen. But thankfully VSCode isn’t like that. Whatever upside another editor might be offering wouldn’t make much of a difference for me.
I fear that the days of native productivity apps are over.
- ihateolives 5y agoI'm truly confused about the notion of JetBrains IDEs being slow. I'm using both IDEA and VSCode, for different projects but sometimes even concurrently (because IDEA's Dart plugin is somehow dumber than VSCode's but IDEA's database explorer is so useful) and if anything then VSCode is slower with autocompletes and refactorings. Typing speed has never been issue with either so I'm really curious what sort of hardware you're running JetBrains products so that they are slower.
- dubcanada 5y agoYa no idea, I've used JetBrains IDEs for years and they've been great. I suspect a lot of people have 400 chrome tabs open and then open up their IDE and blame their IDE for being slow.
- throwaway675309 5y agoSame, even when I have four large monolithic repos open in four separate instances of jetbrains, webstorm is still amazingly responsive.
- andrewmcwatters 5y agoPanic writes software for Apple products.