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I’m in the camp of those who aren’t waiting until it’s too late and avoid vscode

by weikju 4y ago

dx034 4y ago
I guess it always depends on how much you value the IP of your code. But for many projects, I find Copilot too valuable to avoid it because of telemetry/privacy reasons. And I guess if you work on anything open source, leakage of source code isn't a concern anyway.
perfopt 4y ago
What do you use instead? What is a good editor (with the functions of VSCode) for Rust and Python? vi/vim is nice but I find the convenience of VSCode - auto complete, show inf doc etc - very useful
- weberer 4y ago
  Pycharm is really great. https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/ https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/
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- bayindirh 4y ago
  You can always use Eclipse, Kate, Sublime Text, BBEdit depending on your OS and preferences.
- nicoburns 4y ago
  Sublime Text or IntelliJ’s IDEs are probably the most direct replacements.
- titaniczero 4y ago
  > vi/vim is nice but I find the convenience of VSCode - auto complete, show inf doc etc - very useful You can have all of that on vim. On neovim, you can even setup LSP with the same LSP servers that VSCode uses [1]. The learning curve is steeper but if you like vim/neovim keyboard-centric features, it is worth it. The only thing I miss from VSCode is maybe the debugger, not because you can't have one, but because it is a bit tedious to set it up and more error prone. So sometimes I use VSCode as a debugger, but I'm pretty happy with my config on neovim (imports, auto complete, docs info (or "hovering"), definitions, go to definition, rename a symbol, etc., you can have all of that with LSP). [1] https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig
- ParetoOptimal 4y ago
  I do all if this with emacs.
- weikju 4y ago
  I use emacs. I don’t code in Rust but for my occasional Python work I’ve found emacs works better than even Pylance (which isn’t available on vscodium anyway) Occasionally also using code-server, I am interested in some workflows that the vscode architecture allows. Not an emacs fanboy, just don’t think I should tie myself too strongly to vscode and found emacs generally better for how my brain functions.
ActorNightly 4y ago
I feel like people just woke signal their concern for privacy without understanding it. There are definitely some things that should be focused on privacy, however many modern great products (both hardware and software) got to that state specifically because data was collected and product was refined, all without any evidence of nefarious use. Personally, I look forward towards the day when I can open up VSCode, type commands in plain English, and it spits out working, correct code.

I’m in the camp of those who aren’t waiting until it’s too late and avoid vscode

by weikju 4y ago

I’m in the camp of those who aren’t waiting until it’s too late and avoid vscode

I guess it always depends on how much you value the IP of your code. But for many projects, I find Copilot too valuable to avoid it because of telemetry/privacy reasons. And I guess if you work on anything open source, leakage of source code isn't a concern anyway.

perfopt 4y ago

What do you use instead? What is a good editor (with the functions of VSCode) for Rust and Python? vi/vim is nice but I find the convenience of VSCode - auto complete, show inf doc etc - very useful

weberer 4y ago
Pycharm is really great. https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/ https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/
- deleted 4y ago
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bayindirh 4y ago
You can always use Eclipse, Kate, Sublime Text, BBEdit depending on your OS and preferences.
nicoburns 4y ago
Sublime Text or IntelliJ’s IDEs are probably the most direct replacements.
titaniczero 4y ago
> vi/vim is nice but I find the convenience of VSCode - auto complete, show inf doc etc - very useful You can have all of that on vim. On neovim, you can even setup LSP with the same LSP servers that VSCode uses [1]. The learning curve is steeper but if you like vim/neovim keyboard-centric features, it is worth it. The only thing I miss from VSCode is maybe the debugger, not because you can't have one, but because it is a bit tedious to set it up and more error prone. So sometimes I use VSCode as a debugger, but I'm pretty happy with my config on neovim (imports, auto complete, docs info (or "hovering"), definitions, go to definition, rename a symbol, etc., you can have all of that with LSP). [1] https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig
ParetoOptimal 4y ago
I do all if this with emacs.
weikju 4y ago
I use emacs. I don’t code in Rust but for my occasional Python work I’ve found emacs works better than even Pylance (which isn’t available on vscodium anyway) Occasionally also using code-server, I am interested in some workflows that the vscode architecture allows. Not an emacs fanboy, just don’t think I should tie myself too strongly to vscode and found emacs generally better for how my brain functions.

ActorNightly 4y ago

I feel like people just woke signal their concern for privacy without understanding it. There are definitely some things that should be focused on privacy, however many modern great products (both hardware and software) got to that state specifically because data was collected and product was refined, all without any evidence of nefarious use. Personally, I look forward towards the day when I can open up VSCode, type commands in plain English, and it spits out working, correct code.