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> VSCode for all the normies who just want to get on with doing their job and don't feel a need to express their identity or politics through choice of editor
by BaseballPhysics 4y ago
> VSCode for all the normies who just want to get on with doing their job and don't feel a need to express their identity or politics through choice of editor
Seems like just another kind of identity: The self-titled "normie" who glances over at the "corpo-hipsters" and "wizards and furries" and smugly pats themselves on the back about how they're so much better because, unlike everyone else, they just want to "get on with doing their job"...
- bitwize 4y agoThe fact is, I can't do my job very effectively with Visual Studio Code. That's why I throw it down in frustration and storm back to Emacs every time I try it. Emacs has features that allow me to pretend to be an organized, functional person on the job -- notably, Magit, org-mode, and always-on Lisp that helps me automate away the tedious unusual bits of our process. If you were to compel me to use Visual Studio Code, much of my effort which is today productive would be lost as waste heat.
- wly_cdgr 4y agoHeh, yes, def agree, although I think that a person who is genuinely oblivious or indifferent to all this will also prob end up using VSCode just cos it's free and has the highest brand awareness