4 ms·
Looks like VS Code. They copied the bad design.
by LoganDark 2y ago
Looks like VS Code. They copied the bad design.
- elric 2y agoI rather dislike that weird side ribbon thing. Some time ago I thought I'd try and build a version without it, but that wasn't as easy as I would have liked. Maybe I'll give it another go.
- ColonelPhantom 2y agoThe side ribbon of VSCode is called the Activity Bar. You can put it on top of the sidebar (making it more like a tab bar) or disable it entirely (which makes it a lot harder to open the sidebar or change the page it's on). It's as simple as right click it -> Activity Bar Position -> ...
- LoganDark 2y agoCan't you use the command palette to switch views? With enough muscle memory, this is always faster than the mouse, in my experience.
- fastasucan 2y agoYou can just disable it in the settings, quite a lot easier than building a new version without it.
- brabel 2y agoEven JetBrains, which makes actual good IDEs, is copying VSCode with its new editor, Fleet... And even the new IDEA UI (which is still opt-in, thank god - I tried it but moved back because the "old" UI is just clearly more ergonomic to me) is clearly VSCode-like.
- andrekandre 2y agoyea, totally agree, recently pair-programming with a coworker and for a bit i thought he was using fleet or the new IntelliJ ui when instead it was just vs-code... my guess is jetbrains sees the trend and wants to keep up, but if all the editors look the same as vs-code how do you differentiate?
- LoganDark 2y agoI quite like the new IntelliJ UI, BUT only when combined with Material Theme UI (to which I own a perpetual license). Lately I've been using Zed, but I'll have to switch back eventually because the Windows support is terrible (I know, I know, it was designed for macOS).