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Cool tool in a pinch. Use it when it makes sense, but make sure you never, ever, depend on it. They will do everything in their power so you do. They will ma

Cool tool in a pinch. Use it when it makes sense, but make sure you never, ever, depend on it. They will do everything in their power so you do. They will make it very attractive. Very convenient. At some point it will require active efforts not to. People might pressure you to do so, like when everybody asked you to create a FB account. But unlike facebook users, you have the technical know-how, so if you put your entire dev stack in the proprietary cloud, with microsoft services on top of that, nobody will cry for you when you ineluctably get bitten by it a few years from now. Big companies are not your friends. They will abuse it. You will get locked in.

VyseofArcadia 3y ago
> Use it when it makes sense, but make sure you never, ever, depend on it. > They will do everything in their power so you do. It seems utterly insane to me that we put up with this. VSCode is a pretty simple tool. A recent iteration of a tool that we've had since the 60s. But they do their damndest to hook you and then keep you hooked. It's like if a tool company put out a hammer with a comfortable handle and everyone bought one. Then to make sure sales stayed high, they started selling them with the handles secretly coated in cocaine to keep people buying.
- makeitdouble 3y ago
  To parent's point, depending on your org "VSCode" is less the editor part, and more the server component coupled with specific extensions, and probably container definitions for some esotheric projects. We have a setup guide for beginners, and the VSCode route can be set in 15 min , where going for any other editor would probably require half a day. Switching to something else could of course be done with enough effort, but it would take some crazy level sabotage from Microsoft to go these lengths.
  - VyseofArcadia 3y ago
    > but it would take some crazy level sabotage from Microsoft to go these lengths. That isn't unprecedented, but I think they are trying to go more of the boil the frog route these days.

VyseofArcadia 3y ago

> Use it when it makes sense, but make sure you never, ever, depend on it. > They will do everything in their power so you do. It seems utterly insane to me that we put up with this. VSCode is a pretty simple tool. A recent iteration of a tool that we've had since the 60s. But they do their damndest to hook you and then keep you hooked. It's like if a tool company put out a hammer with a comfortable handle and everyone bought one. Then to make sure sales stayed high, they started selling them with the handles secretly coated in cocaine to keep people buying.

makeitdouble 3y ago
To parent's point, depending on your org "VSCode" is less the editor part, and more the server component coupled with specific extensions, and probably container definitions for some esotheric projects. We have a setup guide for beginners, and the VSCode route can be set in 15 min , where going for any other editor would probably require half a day. Switching to something else could of course be done with enough effort, but it would take some crazy level sabotage from Microsoft to go these lengths.
- VyseofArcadia 3y ago
  > but it would take some crazy level sabotage from Microsoft to go these lengths. That isn't unprecedented, but I think they are trying to go more of the boil the frog route these days.