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I use (Neo)vim as my daily driver, professionally (for the past 4 years, coming from Goland). I've found every other editor to be too heavy/slow (VScode/Jetbrai

by ar_lan 4y ago

I use (Neo)vim as my daily driver, professionally (for the past 4 years, coming from Goland). I've found every other editor to be too heavy/slow (VScode/Jetbrains), or too noisy (regarding features). Neovim allows me to specify the precise minimum I desire to have a fully functional IDE-like experience (basically treesitter + LSP + DAP + minimal extra plugins). It's super fast, I'm already in my shell, and my memory usage gets to stay super low :)

Salgat 4y ago
Once I learned how to use vs code productively it really changed my mind. The other day I needed to do a quick base64 encode and vs code had that. Same goes for formatting some json or doing a diff. It's all available in a single tool with no learning curve. Hell it even has git and git blame in there.
- ar_lan 4y ago
  Yeah - to each their own. I have all these tools in my terminal too. I'm just a lot faster in the terminal, and I don't really think it's possible to be faster in a GUI (even if there are shortcuts - there will surely be shortcomings before you eventually just re-invent a terminal via VSCode). Plus - modal editing :)
- laurels-marts 4y ago
  I think VS Code is just extremely convenient and can address most peoples needs out of the box. It’s therefore also very beginner friendly. You don’t need to constantly fight the tool or spend hours researching how to configure some trivial feature. That being said VS Code is quite heavy and has an enormous amount of GUI elements. I mean they even have buttons for things like git fetch and pull for heavens sake. They could release a VSC Light that strips most of the GUI out.
  - ohy 4y ago
    True, but you can customise it a lot. So the number of UI elements is not a problem.
- ClumsyPilot 4y ago
  Vs Code is the gateway drug of real IDE's. Last time I checked, it still cant do things like navigate to definition, or rename a calss along with all mentions of it in comments. Or count TODO: comments
  - dizwit 4y ago
    navigate to definition -> f12 rename all instances of class/method/variable -> f2 count TODOs: too many vs code plugins that will do that for you Not sure when the last time you checked, but vs code is a practical full fledged IDE with the right plugins.
  - ar_lan 4y ago
    I don't think this is accurate - at least not anymore. VS Code supports LSP configuration which means all those features should be available. That said - I haven't used it in years. Way too heavy and Vim does all of those + modal editing.

by ar_lan 4y ago

Salgat 4y ago

Once I learned how to use vs code productively it really changed my mind. The other day I needed to do a quick base64 encode and vs code had that. Same goes for formatting some json or doing a diff. It's all available in a single tool with no learning curve. Hell it even has git and git blame in there.

ar_lan 4y ago
Yeah - to each their own. I have all these tools in my terminal too. I'm just a lot faster in the terminal, and I don't really think it's possible to be faster in a GUI (even if there are shortcuts - there will surely be shortcomings before you eventually just re-invent a terminal via VSCode). Plus - modal editing :)
laurels-marts 4y ago
I think VS Code is just extremely convenient and can address most peoples needs out of the box. It’s therefore also very beginner friendly. You don’t need to constantly fight the tool or spend hours researching how to configure some trivial feature. That being said VS Code is quite heavy and has an enormous amount of GUI elements. I mean they even have buttons for things like git fetch and pull for heavens sake. They could release a VSC Light that strips most of the GUI out.
- ohy 4y ago
  True, but you can customise it a lot. So the number of UI elements is not a problem.
ClumsyPilot 4y ago
Vs Code is the gateway drug of real IDE's. Last time I checked, it still cant do things like navigate to definition, or rename a calss along with all mentions of it in comments. Or count TODO: comments
- dizwit 4y ago
  navigate to definition -> f12 rename all instances of class/method/variable -> f2 count TODOs: too many vs code plugins that will do that for you Not sure when the last time you checked, but vs code is a practical full fledged IDE with the right plugins.
- ar_lan 4y ago
  I don't think this is accurate - at least not anymore. VS Code supports LSP configuration which means all those features should be available. That said - I haven't used it in years. Way too heavy and Vim does all of those + modal editing.