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> VSCode is one of the greatest pieces of engineering of our time. I don’t know… things like vertically landing rockets, the Large Hadron Collider, inflating s

> VSCode is one of the greatest pieces of engineering of our time. I don’t know… things like vertically landing rockets, the Large Hadron Collider, inflating space stations, CRISPR, mRNA vaccines come to mind among many other things that surely surpass VS Code when it comes to engineering marvels.

smaudet 4y ago
Great point. I think the OP would be amazed if you showed them how a car works...
- jgilias 4y ago
  I’m sure they have an understanding of how a car works, and also, that they actually meant “software engineering”.
  - p-e-w 4y ago
    I did in fact mean all of engineering.
forgotpwd16 4y ago
Based on last sentence, software engineering is probably implied. edit: Seems it was not.
p-e-w 4y ago
I hold VSCode to be at least equal to those achievements. Having used dozens of text editors and IDEs in the course of my programming career, I can appreciate how non-obvious it is for a piece of software this complex to work so fucking well all the time. And considering how many people are empowered by the productivity gains VSCode brings, I'd say that the real-world impact of VSCode is also much greater than that of most of the projects you listed. VSCode has probably saved hundreds of millions of hours for programmers over the past few years. It's almost impossible to come up with an appropriate comparison for how important it is.
- ocimbote 4y ago
  VSCode over mRNA vaccines? That's too obvious of a troll, please, stop here for a second, take a deep breath and reconsider. It's okay, you can let go of your past mistake, nobody will blame you.
  - Symbiote 4y ago
    Yesterday p-e-w was arguing all programming should be done in English and IDNs never used, today that VSCode is the greatest engineering achievement. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33995265 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33995265
    - bloopernova 4y ago
      Yeah, they've been successful in their trolling in this thread, but they're still just a troll.
  - p-e-w 4y ago
    See my reply on the sibling comment. To summarize, you have no idea how important software is.
- catfishx 4y ago
  You are saying an IDE (of which there are many wayyy better) is as equally important as a technology which helped save thousands of lives? Do you really think VSCode is an equally big achievement as building space stations? peoples lives are more important than a few hours of a programmers life getting used to vim (or any other non VSCode editor) EDIT: Even millions, and thats only one of thousand technologies that improve our life (expectancy)
  - jgilias 4y ago
    The consensus is that it’s millions of lives, not merely thousands. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19-vaccines-saved-estimated-20-million-lives-1-year https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19-vaccines-saved-estimated...

smaudet 4y ago

Great point. I think the OP would be amazed if you showed them how a car works...

jgilias 4y ago
I’m sure they have an understanding of how a car works, and also, that they actually meant “software engineering”.
- p-e-w 4y ago
  I did in fact mean all of engineering.

forgotpwd16 4y ago

Based on last sentence, software engineering is probably implied. edit: Seems it was not.

p-e-w 4y ago

I hold VSCode to be at least equal to those achievements. Having used dozens of text editors and IDEs in the course of my programming career, I can appreciate how non-obvious it is for a piece of software this complex to work so fucking well all the time. And considering how many people are empowered by the productivity gains VSCode brings, I'd say that the real-world impact of VSCode is also much greater than that of most of the projects you listed. VSCode has probably saved hundreds of millions of hours for programmers over the past few years. It's almost impossible to come up with an appropriate comparison for how important it is.

ocimbote 4y ago
VSCode over mRNA vaccines? That's too obvious of a troll, please, stop here for a second, take a deep breath and reconsider. It's okay, you can let go of your past mistake, nobody will blame you.
- Symbiote 4y ago
  Yesterday p-e-w was arguing all programming should be done in English and IDNs never used, today that VSCode is the greatest engineering achievement. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33995265 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33995265
  - bloopernova 4y ago
    Yeah, they've been successful in their trolling in this thread, but they're still just a troll.
- p-e-w 4y ago
  See my reply on the sibling comment. To summarize, you have no idea how important software is.
catfishx 4y ago
You are saying an IDE (of which there are many wayyy better) is as equally important as a technology which helped save thousands of lives? Do you really think VSCode is an equally big achievement as building space stations? peoples lives are more important than a few hours of a programmers life getting used to vim (or any other non VSCode editor) EDIT: Even millions, and thats only one of thousand technologies that improve our life (expectancy)
- jgilias 4y ago
  The consensus is that it’s millions of lives, not merely thousands. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19-vaccines-saved-estimated-20-million-lives-1-year https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19-vaccines-saved-estimated...