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I've been looking for a reason to leave the comfort of JetBrains tools for VSCode, and this might be it. I don't have a particularly strong opinion about the n
by sirwhinesalot 4y ago
I've been looking for a reason to leave the comfort of JetBrains tools for VSCode, and this might be it.
I don't have a particularly strong opinion about the new UI, other than that it looks way too much like VSCode and way too little like the current one.
The main reason I use JetBrains stuff is that I'm familiar with the interface, it's messy but I know where to find all I need. VSCode is unusable without writing json config files and dropping into a terminal.
I always wonder why the keyboard jockeys are using IDEs at all instead of Vim. Why even use the Vim plugin instead of Vim? If optimal keyboard usage is your goal, Vim is all you need and want, it is the king.
Me? I like being able to open the IDE preferences and see the configurations for all the testing, virtual environment, or whatever crap I need to have set up to do my work. Typing text is easy, dealing with bullshit configs is the annoying part.
They've come into my messy table and threw all the papers into the ground. If I need to sort them all again I might as well not pay them for the privilege.
- jen20 4y ago> I've been looking for a reason If you’re looking for a reason, you’d have found one regardless of anything else.
- sirwhinesalot 4y agoRidiculous notion. I'm paying for their software for a reason. If they're winning against free it's because their offering is worthwhile. Of course I'd rather use the free alternative that nearly every language provides official support for. It's the job of JetBrains, who are selling a competition paid product, to make it worthwhile for me to keep paying. As the value of their product decreases, and the quality of the free offering increases, at some point a small increase in productivity is not worth the added cost. It has to be sufficiently better.