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VSCode is adequate, not great. The bar for responsive and minimal application is so bad these days thanks to web apps.

• Kiro 4y ago
  It's great and the best desktop app I've ever used.
  • jcelerier 4y ago
    I'm sorry for you if it's the best that you have ever experienced. It is very subpar and slow.
    • Semaphor 4y ago
      It's the best electron app I've ever used. It's so much faster than anything else I've seen use electron.
      • tlavoie 4y ago
        That's quite the back-handed compliment though, isn't it?
        • Semaphor 4y ago
          Not really, I’d say VS Code is the only electron app that can stand up to native apps. It’s not the best, but it’s pretty good. Now, for electron, it’s certainly not a compliment. From electron apps I’ve used, only VS Code is great, Discord is good, and everything else is just really, really bad. It’s apparently extremely hard to use electron and have something close to decent performance.
          • tlavoie 4y ago
            Right, sorry, I meant back-handed for Electron. I have used VS Code a bit for a class, but am usually an Emacs user.
            • Semaphor 4y ago
              Hah, nah. Electron gets no compliment at all, backhanded or otherwise. When almost no one can create an app on it that doesn't suck, there are deep issues.
• akmittal 4y ago
  VSCode replace Sublime, Visual Studio(full) and IntelliJ IDEs for so many developers. It has all the features >90% of developers and it is faster than VS and IntelliJ IDEs
  • lozenge 4y ago
    And it doesn't support window and monitor layouts that were possible and useful in Visual Studio 2003, or probably earlier.
    • JaggerJo 4y ago
      Agree. VS Code is simply not comparable to a full blown IDE. It's a text editor with some integrated language tooling.
      • tngranados 4y ago
        Of course it is comparable. They are not quite the same thing, sure, but for many people they are definitely comparable and more often than not, VSCode is the better option. It may not support some things, but the same can be said about the “full blown IDE”.
        • JaggerJo 4y ago
          bold statement, as you claim that VS Code would fit the majority better than say $IDE from JetBrains. I don't know how you came to that conclusion but I'd guess that you mostly work on small projects? (where I'd say smallish is < 100K LOC) Stuff I'd miss in VS Code coming from JetBrains Rider: - Docking of panels to top, bottom, left, right - built-in database explorer (with table designer, script runner, ...) - built-in unit test explorer - built-in memory/perf profiler (not talking about a simple text interface!) - nice config options of project settings (in either text with completion or the UI) - NuGet package explorer UI - integrated IL viewer - great git blame / annotation view ... could continue for a while
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• solarkraft 4y ago
  You can make fast web apps and you can make slow native apps. Check out VSCode's older brother and be amazed by how unresponsive and glitchy is.
  • jcelerier 4y ago
    The move to WPF in 2010 killed VS. Even today on today's computers it isn't as responsive as VS2008 was.