Sans for Java, for which IntelliJ IDEA still holds a little bit of an edge in terms of syntax highlighting, lots of people are moving to VSCode. Besides all the

Sans for Java, for which IntelliJ IDEA still holds a little bit of an edge in terms of syntax highlighting, lots of people are moving to VSCode. Besides all the nice little features (like jumping through code, markdown render, e.t.c) it has 4 big advantages. First, VSCode remote SSH extension is EXTREMELY useful - any computer you can SSH to you can edit code directly on with any extension. Secondly, terminal integration is super nice. You can configure keybinds specifically for the terminal (and in general, they are pretty well set up default). So for example if you are using remote SSH extension from windows to linux, the terminal functions just like under native Linux. Thirdly, for data science dev, native Jupyter support is super nice. Fourthly, the remote SSH integration also works extremely well with Windows/WSL2, which is arguably the best way to have a "dual boot" system today. You get the widest range of software/games that you can run, with almost no drawbacks in comparison to running native Linux. You can do all your dev in WLS2 nicely with VSCode, just like you would under Linux, including things like docker, CUDA for ML, e.t.c. Even graphical linux apps work now.