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I have, and previous to that I was a big fan of Komodo IDE. One weird feature that I love from both VSCode and Komodo is the ability to open a folder as a proje

by girvo 4y ago

I have, and previous to that I was a big fan of Komodo IDE. One weird feature that I love from both VSCode and Komodo is the ability to open a folder as a project, no need for an actual project file or other IDE specific handling of it that older style IDEs always seemed to a require. The feature set of the IntelliJ products are quite excellent of course, but for whatever reason my need for some weird IDE-editor hybrid where the filesystem is what matters, not the project, always meant I bounced off them.

zo1 4y ago
I regularly open folders as projects and the intellij (pycharm in my case) IDE creates it as a project without hassle. Just add a bit of a script to cleanup any ide project cruft it creates and I'd say you're mostly there. Compared to all I get from a real ide, VSCode is like a stone age dinosaur.
- Kiro 4y ago
  Sounds horrible. Just let me open a folder without it being a project or having to use a script to clean up stuff (wtf?).
  - kalleboo 4y ago
    I use an IntelliJ IDE and open folders all the time and it's never created any cruft to clean up. I think that only shows up if you start making project configurations (like file watchers to run preprocessors for web languages)
    - evol262 4y ago
      It still makes a .idea folder to add to .gitignore or clean up, just as .vscode makes a .vscode folder. I don't see this as a lot different than MacOS spraying .DS_STORE files everywhere. It's not a big deal to add to .gitignore, but it does leave a fingerprint. It's just that tries to determine reasonable defaults if the path doesn't exist instead of Netbeans/Eclipse/whatever forcing you to pick them with a wizard if you want any of the "real" features to work.
  - lostmsu 4y ago
    VS Code creates a project though: .vscode folder.
    - nickersonm 4y ago
      Only if you make workspace-specific settings changes.
  - stjohnswarts 4y ago
    or be forced to bend to their idea of what a project is and which build tools I need to be using, I concur 100%.

by girvo 4y ago

zo1 4y ago

I regularly open folders as projects and the intellij (pycharm in my case) IDE creates it as a project without hassle. Just add a bit of a script to cleanup any ide project cruft it creates and I'd say you're mostly there. Compared to all I get from a real ide, VSCode is like a stone age dinosaur.

Kiro 4y ago
Sounds horrible. Just let me open a folder without it being a project or having to use a script to clean up stuff (wtf?).
- kalleboo 4y ago
  I use an IntelliJ IDE and open folders all the time and it's never created any cruft to clean up. I think that only shows up if you start making project configurations (like file watchers to run preprocessors for web languages)
  - evol262 4y ago
    It still makes a .idea folder to add to .gitignore or clean up, just as .vscode makes a .vscode folder. I don't see this as a lot different than MacOS spraying .DS_STORE files everywhere. It's not a big deal to add to .gitignore, but it does leave a fingerprint. It's just that tries to determine reasonable defaults if the path doesn't exist instead of Netbeans/Eclipse/whatever forcing you to pick them with a wizard if you want any of the "real" features to work.
- lostmsu 4y ago
  VS Code creates a project though: .vscode folder.
  - nickersonm 4y ago
    Only if you make workspace-specific settings changes.
- stjohnswarts 4y ago
  or be forced to bend to their idea of what a project is and which build tools I need to be using, I concur 100%.