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I like brackets but always ends up in VSCode due to extensions.

by philliphaydon 4y ago

tristan957 4y ago
Brackets in nearing end of life or is already at that point. Adobe announced it a while ago.
- philliphaydon 4y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26341931 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26341931 Just found this. It’s a shame. I donno why but I just liked brackets interface.
  - Santosh83 4y ago
    In this case a community of devs seem to have picked up the code base, forked it, and is actively developing. So its not exactly dead.
    - philliphaydon 4y ago
      Oh that’s cool. Maybe that will happen with atom too.
SenHeng 4y ago
Another Brackets user! There must be dozens of us! I used Brackets too back then and tried Atom a few times but it was always too slow and laggy. I was so glad when VSCode came out and that it was actually good. I was in the midst of switching to VIM but it was just too much of a bother.
corrral 4y ago
It's a very dumb reason to stick with an editor, but I have trouble going back to Sublime after VSCode despite preferring most things about Sublime, because I always forget how to manage packages using Sublime's command prompt and have to screw around with it for a while each time, while VSCode has a GUI for that so the memorization required is zero, and can easily browse available packages without bouncing out to a browser, and it often prompts me to install relevant plugins so it's just a matter of clicking "OK". Every time I try to go back to Sublime, this annoys me right off the bat and I'm back in VSCode by the end of the day.
- ghshephard 4y ago
  Ctl-Shift-P is used in VSCode as well as Sublime. And then, "Install Package" Or through the Gui - "Preferences --> Package Control"
  - corrral 4y ago
    Sure, I find that every time I google for how to do it :-) In VSCode, I can browse info about packages without having to remember a thing aside from "one of the six big icons on the left is 'Extensions'". One mouse click, start typing, click anything that looks like it might be good, get a ton of info and an "install" button. There are filters! So I can simply sort by "most popular" if I want, or by name, or a bunch of other things, all without having to remember anything for this somewhat-infrequent operation, because it's in the GUI. It's mainly the integrated package exploration that's missing. And the auto-suggestion for plugins—in fact, I rarely have to do any of the above, and just click "OK" to whatever VSCode suggests, and everything's fine. Sublime has (I just checked) a "package discovery" command, which... opens a web browser, to the exact same page you'd have ended on if you'd started by just googling it (which is what I do). So you have to find what you want on there, then go back to Sublime and find it again. The result is that in the best case it takes me 1% as long to install what I need on VSCode (just click OK), and worst case it takes me perhaps 50% as long, compared with Sublime. I'm also way less likely to go poke around and see if there's anything that might be useful, in Sublime. [EDIT] "Why aren't you way more familiar with the command palette?" ephemeral shells as anything more than dead-simple launchers make me really uncomfortable. I hate using them. Apple spotlight? I use it extensively—only for launching programs, period, nothing else. I'd much rather have a persistent shell environment I could attach from any terminal and leave open.
    - ghshephard 4y ago
      That's super fair. I'll admit I'm entirely in the same boat - if nothing happens on a new tool when I type Ctrl-Shift-P, I usually just shrug and go back to using all the other tools I have that do that. I do love the fact that, with Sublime, that 75%+ of the time when I want to do something, say, pretty-print a JSON text document, it's just: Ctl-Shift-P, "json" (Don't see anything obvious) [hit backspace to clear json] "Install Package", "json" See the "Pretty Print" option, install it in 2 seconds, and on my way.

I like brackets but always ends up in VSCode due to extensions.

tristan957 4y ago

Brackets in nearing end of life or is already at that point. Adobe announced it a while ago.

philliphaydon 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26341931 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26341931 Just found this. It’s a shame. I donno why but I just liked brackets interface.
- Santosh83 4y ago
  In this case a community of devs seem to have picked up the code base, forked it, and is actively developing. So its not exactly dead.
  - philliphaydon 4y ago
    Oh that’s cool. Maybe that will happen with atom too.

SenHeng 4y ago

Another Brackets user! There must be dozens of us! I used Brackets too back then and tried Atom a few times but it was always too slow and laggy. I was so glad when VSCode came out and that it was actually good. I was in the midst of switching to VIM but it was just too much of a bother.

corrral 4y ago

It's a very dumb reason to stick with an editor, but I have trouble going back to Sublime after VSCode despite preferring most things about Sublime, because I always forget how to manage packages using Sublime's command prompt and have to screw around with it for a while each time, while VSCode has a GUI for that so the memorization required is zero, and can easily browse available packages without bouncing out to a browser, and it often prompts me to install relevant plugins so it's just a matter of clicking "OK". Every time I try to go back to Sublime, this annoys me right off the bat and I'm back in VSCode by the end of the day.

ghshephard 4y ago
Ctl-Shift-P is used in VSCode as well as Sublime. And then, "Install Package" Or through the Gui - "Preferences --> Package Control"
- corrral 4y ago
  Sure, I find that every time I google for how to do it :-) In VSCode, I can browse info about packages without having to remember a thing aside from "one of the six big icons on the left is 'Extensions'". One mouse click, start typing, click anything that looks like it might be good, get a ton of info and an "install" button. There are filters! So I can simply sort by "most popular" if I want, or by name, or a bunch of other things, all without having to remember anything for this somewhat-infrequent operation, because it's in the GUI. It's mainly the integrated package exploration that's missing. And the auto-suggestion for plugins—in fact, I rarely have to do any of the above, and just click "OK" to whatever VSCode suggests, and everything's fine. Sublime has (I just checked) a "package discovery" command, which... opens a web browser, to the exact same page you'd have ended on if you'd started by just googling it (which is what I do). So you have to find what you want on there, then go back to Sublime and find it again. The result is that in the best case it takes me 1% as long to install what I need on VSCode (just click OK), and worst case it takes me perhaps 50% as long, compared with Sublime. I'm also way less likely to go poke around and see if there's anything that might be useful, in Sublime. [EDIT] "Why aren't you way more familiar with the command palette?" ephemeral shells as anything more than dead-simple launchers make me really uncomfortable. I hate using them. Apple spotlight? I use it extensively—only for launching programs, period, nothing else. I'd much rather have a persistent shell environment I could attach from any terminal and leave open.
  - ghshephard 4y ago
    That's super fair. I'll admit I'm entirely in the same boat - if nothing happens on a new tool when I type Ctrl-Shift-P, I usually just shrug and go back to using all the other tools I have that do that. I do love the fact that, with Sublime, that 75%+ of the time when I want to do something, say, pretty-print a JSON text document, it's just: Ctl-Shift-P, "json" (Don't see anything obvious) [hit backspace to clear json] "Install Package", "json" See the "Pretty Print" option, install it in 2 seconds, and on my way.