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It's really nice to have reliable tools that you can learn once and continue using a decade to free your mind up to master other parts of the job. (like the CSS

It's really nice to have reliable tools that you can learn once and continue using a decade to free your mind up to master other parts of the job. (like the CSS in JS flavor of the week) Same thing seems to apply to Visual Studio Code. Sure they have a big changelog, but the actual experience of using it feels very much like when it first released.

bottlepalm 2y ago
Developers, developers, developers!
- juped 2y ago
  I also miss Ballmer
  - k8sToGo 2y ago
    or do you miss the cocaine?
    - ssl-3 2y ago
      I also miss cocaine
onionisafruit 2y ago
I agree, and I wish GitHub could continue to be one of those instead of what ms is turning it into.
rurp 2y ago
> It's really nice to have reliable tools that you can learn once and continue using a decade to free your mind up to master other parts of the job. I strongly agree, and it's weird how much hostility I encounter from folks who think the opposite. There are an endless amount of interesting and/or useful things to learn in this industry; spending time relearning how to do a mundane task in an app I've been using for a decade is a waste.
- tivert 2y ago
  > There are an endless amount of interesting and/or useful things to learn in this industry; spending time relearning how to do a mundane task in an app I've been using for a decade is a waste. It's not just "in this industry," the problem is a societal one. It just goes to show you how unwise some people are. They like to "learn new things," so proceed to relearn the same thing over and over. They got brainwashed by the "new is better" meme.
theamk 2y ago
That's what the the post's author wants, but apparently Microsoft is breaking github instead. I am sure Github will be around in the decade, but I am not sure at all it will still be everyone's default location to host source code. Which is a pity.
- shrimp_emoji 2y ago
  A pity? Uh, no. Please, move the network effects to a platform not owned by Microsoft and their shitty AI venture so my code can follow suit, for the love of god, HURRY!
wenc 2y ago
VS Code is the emacs that emacs never was. It has great extensions, lets you work on remote machines as if they were local, and supports language servers, notebook interfaces, and all manners of code intelligence.
- beepbooptheory 2y ago
  https://youtu.be/WO23WBji_Z0?si=ZBchB1nvqOe42snu https://youtu.be/WO23WBji_Z0?si=ZBchB1nvqOe42snu

bottlepalm 2y ago

Developers, developers, developers!

juped 2y ago
I also miss Ballmer
- k8sToGo 2y ago
  or do you miss the cocaine?
  - ssl-3 2y ago
    I also miss cocaine

onionisafruit 2y ago

I agree, and I wish GitHub could continue to be one of those instead of what ms is turning it into.

rurp 2y ago

> It's really nice to have reliable tools that you can learn once and continue using a decade to free your mind up to master other parts of the job. I strongly agree, and it's weird how much hostility I encounter from folks who think the opposite. There are an endless amount of interesting and/or useful things to learn in this industry; spending time relearning how to do a mundane task in an app I've been using for a decade is a waste.

tivert 2y ago
> There are an endless amount of interesting and/or useful things to learn in this industry; spending time relearning how to do a mundane task in an app I've been using for a decade is a waste. It's not just "in this industry," the problem is a societal one. It just goes to show you how unwise some people are. They like to "learn new things," so proceed to relearn the same thing over and over. They got brainwashed by the "new is better" meme.

theamk 2y ago

That's what the the post's author wants, but apparently Microsoft is breaking github instead. I am sure Github will be around in the decade, but I am not sure at all it will still be everyone's default location to host source code. Which is a pity.

shrimp_emoji 2y ago
A pity? Uh, no. Please, move the network effects to a platform not owned by Microsoft and their shitty AI venture so my code can follow suit, for the love of god, HURRY!

wenc 2y ago

VS Code is the emacs that emacs never was. It has great extensions, lets you work on remote machines as if they were local, and supports language servers, notebook interfaces, and all manners of code intelligence.

beepbooptheory 2y ago
https://youtu.be/WO23WBji_Z0?si=ZBchB1nvqOe42snu https://youtu.be/WO23WBji_Z0?si=ZBchB1nvqOe42snu